A Mint Ss 8-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Auction Archive Second War Period Thai Pilot

Second War Period Thai Pilot Wings - In think padded embroidered bullion

navy blue and purple inks

circa 1825-30

He was commissioned as a Captain in The Queen's York Rangers on August 28

100 mm x 137 mm photograph mounted to a thick 105 mm x 157 mm card backer

A Mint Ss 8-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Auction Archive Second War Period Thai PilotA textbook example of a SS 8 Year Long Service Award (SS Dienstauszeichnung); in bronze; unmarked, but these medals were produced exclusively by Deschler & Sohn of Munich and Lorenz of Unterreichenbach; exquisite manufacturing quality with very fine details; the obverse bearing the standard SS runes within an oak leaf wreath with ribbons on the bottom of the wreath; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS (For Loyal Services in the SS)