Germany, Third Reich. A Customs Service Decoration Newly Listed each of the eight sets

each of the eight sets being separated by a shorter silver-gilt-edged blue enamel ray with bifurcated end

plain reverse with central medallion depicting the institution date MDCCCXLI (1841) encircled by the inscription GREGORUS XVI RESTITUTIVIT

the Castle of Mildstad in the Duchy of Carinthia

maker marked on the reverse “J

Germany, Third Reich. A Customs Service Decoration Newly Listed each of the eight sets(Zollgrenzschutz Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE