Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler Newly Listed large embossed spread-winged eagle insignia

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

Warrant Officer/Air Gunner Sergeant F

magnetic pin

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

Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler Newly Listed large embossed spread-winged eagle insigniaA 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