Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Service Decoration, Type III United Republic of a tab with a smooth

a tab with a smooth finished dark brown upper stitched in place on the underside at the left end

with a single circular border

The sidewalls on the inside are lined in steel blue rayon

marked “Gesetzlich Geschützt” on the reverse

the “Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 medaille”

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Service Decoration, Type III United Republic of a tab with a smooth(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen, 3. Form). Instituted 30 April 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crossed hammer and mallet, defaced by a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 12 mm in diameter, weighing