Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp GTRexclude An Honour Legion Cross

An Honour Legion Cross

to Private Thomas J

measuring 35 mm (w) x 35 mm (h))

Just before leaving for overseas

In September 1932

Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp GTRexclude An Honour Legion Cross(Feuerwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 11 June 1895 by Prince Karl Gnther. (1895 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, the obverse consistent of a rectangular plaque bearing a central Schwarzburg Rudolstadt coat of arms, flanked on the left by an intertwined hose and ropes and on the right by a firemans helmet above crossed axes, affixed to a square backer retaining an intact original ribbon, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened catch, unmarked,