Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp Auction Archive and ex-combatant of Northern Africa

and ex-combatant of Northern Africa campaign

Minor tarnishing is evident to the metal features

Parts of the regiment were placed on active service on September 1

1916 in Nuremberg

if not all of the stenographers employed at OMFC Headquarters were civilians

Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp Auction Archive and ex-combatant of Northern Africa(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,