Germany, Ss. A Ss Long Service Award, Ii Class For 12 Years certificate_of_authenticity also stamped with letter A

also stamped with letter A on bottom of flat loop and on integral ring

March 1st 1943 he was made an SS Sturmmann

as Oberleutnant der Reserve

A very scarce WWII period decoration

Germany, Ss. A Ss Long Service Award, Ii Class For 12 Years certificate_of_authenticity also stamped with letter A(SS Dienstauszeichnung, II Klasse fr 12 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1941 issue). A rare SS Long Service Award, II Class for 12 Years, constructed of silvered bronze, on an original teardrop shaped suspension loop with a postwar replacement ribbon, the decoration consisting of a swastika with ribbed arms, the obverse bearing double raised Sig runes set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE