Heer Four Year Long Service Award

Product Description: This Heer Four Year Long Service Award is a nice, early quality medal. This one was awarded for 4 years of service in the German Armed Forces. The original silver finish is completely intact, with attractive, slight age toning. The award is crisply struck, with nice smooth surfaces, and all of the original detail is intact on both sides. There are no traces of actual wear, and only some extremely minor, tiny marks, mostly to the edges. The original suspension ring is intact, and unmarked. This Heer Four Year Long Service Award is complete with a crisp piece of neatly folded light cornflower blue ribbon. The ribbon appears to have had an eagle device applied to the front, and a pin fitting for affixing it to a uniform on the reverse; these are missing. This is a nice example of this attractive award, that remains in excellent condition.

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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