Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award Province of China with silvered bronze hardware and

with silvered bronze hardware and one identifying stamp on the central panel

circumscribed “Landesbauernschaft Rheinland Hauptabteilung” in capital letters

their true original recipient was determined to be this British chaplain

Mayer (Type A)

consisting of a Cross Pattée with a blackened magnetic iron core within a plated neusilber frame

Germany, Third Reich. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Long Service Award Province of China with silvered bronze hardware and(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) insignia in the form of a German national eagle perched on top of a pedestal overlaid by an inscription of BLUT UND BODEN (BLOOD AND SOIL) and a mobile swastika defaced by a sword and wheat stalk, situated above a number 40 and inscription of REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a