Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Merit In Fire Fighting By The Prussian Mint Archive and Blue Cross Stickpin (silver

and Blue Cross Stickpin (silver with blue enamels

with the majority of its original finish not intact

87 mm (w) x 33

and of highest rarity

set on a blackened magnetic metal button measuring 16 mm in diameter

Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Merit In Fire Fighting By The Prussian Mint Archive and Blue Cross Stickpin (silver(Erinnerungszeichen Verdienste um das Feuerlschwesen). Instituted 21 December 1933 by Wilhelm Frick. (1934 1936 issue). Constructed of silver, vertical pinback, the obverse with a central fireman blowing a horn and clutching a hose, above a burning building, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), with a mobile swastika at the bottom, the reverse maker marked for PREUSS. STAATSMNZE for the