Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand Bavaria 40-Year Faithful Service Award Hold the obverse bearing a illegible

the obverse bearing a illegible engraver’s mark

BERLIN UND GNESEN”

and he was executed by firing squad in January 1944

securing in place the interior apparatus

The reverse ricasso is etched with a large diamond enclosing puma (a mountain lion’s head)

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand Bavaria 40-Year Faithful Service Award Hold the obverse bearing a illegible(Reichsnhrstand Landesbauernschaft Bayern Ehrenzeichen fr 20 Jahre treue Dienste fr Mnner). Constructed of silvered feinzink, on loop for suspension from a metal clasp with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FR 40 JAHRE TREUE DIENSTE (FOR 40 YEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE), circumscribed by an inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND LANDESBAUERNSCHAFT BAYERN (REICHSNHRSTAND