Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac black waffenfarbe

black waffenfarbe

fine and very fine condition

flanked by silvered metal initials “AW” (possibly for “Aufwärter”

a Letter From W

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac black waffenfarbe(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled