Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a Letter From W

a Letter From W

also marked 1 in centre (Angolia states this is for an unknown purpose)

inscribed “ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE FEIER DES HUNDERTJÄHRIGEN BESTEHENS DER FIRMA GEORG ZUGMAYER & SÖHNE” (“IN MEMORY OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPANY GEORG ZUGMAYER & SON”)

A Second War Allied Italy Campaign Star

Verdienstmedaille in Bronze)

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a Letter From W(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled