Condition: Excellent
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Product Description: This 12 Year SS Service Medal Case is an extremely rare and desirable piece. It’s a finely made, top quality case, intended for issue with the 12 year SS long service award. The outside of this case is covered with a black leatherette material, that retains strong original color. The lid is adorned with the runic emblem of the SS, embossed in silver foil. Nearly all of the original leatherette surface is intact, the SS emblem is near perfect, and the exterior shows only minimal handling wear. The hinge and push button are intact and functional. Inside, there is a beautiful red velvet insert on which the medal would rest, with a space for the ribbon. The lid is lined with white silk, which shows slight age toning. The silk that covers the hinge inside the case has split. This 12 Year SS Service Medal Case is very hard to find item, that would be perfect for housing a minty award. The condition of this case rates as excellent.
Historical Description: Prior to WWII, the German military and civil authorities instituted a wide range of Long Service Awards to reward personnel for years of service. These awards were used by all branches of the German military, as well as civil and political organizations such as the police, the customs service, and the National Labor Service (RAD). There was also a general Long Service Award for civil service. Each of these awards was issued in the form of a medal that was suspended from a cornflower blue ribbon. Many of these were made in different grades denoting a specific number of years of service. They were worn on the uniform in the form of ribbon or medal bars, and up to two long service awards could be worn at the same time. In most cases, a device affixed to the ribbon bar would denote for which service the award had been issued; sometimes the medals themselves had devices on the ribbons, either in the form of pinned-on metal emblems, or else hand or machine embroidery applied directly to the ribbon. Some German Long Service Awards were very widely awarded, others were made and issued only in small numbers.
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