A Mint Ss 8-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Auction Archive obtaining a promotion to Corporal

obtaining a promotion to Corporal on June 21

He was commissioned as a Captain in The Queen's York Rangers on August 28

with a sailing ship in the background

where he attended the 8th Battle Drill Course

circa 1825-30

A Mint Ss 8-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Auction Archive obtaining a promotion to CorporalA 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; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS (For Loyal Services in the SS)