Baden, Grand Duchy. A Fire Service Long Service Bar Auction named Temporary Warrant Officer 2nd

named Temporary Warrant Officer 2nd Class on September 25th and commissioned as a Pilot Officer on December 10th

with the eagle wearing the royal crown on its head and holding a reef knotted rope in its talons

the blouse exhibiting a few holes on either side of the central rear seam

1940 and signed in blue ink by an Obersturmführer and Deputy Leader of Motorstandarte 78

the United Kingdom and Continental Europe (France

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Fire Service Long Service Bar Auction named Temporary Warrant Officer 2nd(Ehrenzeichen fr Mitglieder der freiwilligen Feuerwehr). Instituted on 3 November 1920. Type I. (1920 1934 Issue). A gilded bronze frame, the centre presenting the inscription 25 JAHRE DIENST BEI DER FREIWILLIGEN FEUERWEHR (25 YEARS VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE), mounted to a period original red and yellow striped ribbon, reverse present horizontal pinback, measuring 38. 74 mm (w) x 38. 98 mm (h), and in extremely fine condition.