Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler Newly Listed Footnote: Early breast stars of

Footnote: Early breast stars of the Order of the Black Eagle were issued in embroidered form

measuring 90 mm (w) x 40 mm (h))

large embossed spread-winged eagle insignia inside a full wreath of oak leaves at the lower left with the inscription "IV E: W

Constructed of cardboard-reinforced red wool

Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler Newly Listed Footnote: Early breast stars ofA 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 superimposed on a static swastika; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS