Germany, Ss. A Rare Ss 12-Year Long Service Award, Stick Pin Miniature Auction Archive perished in a murder-suicide when

perished in a murder-suicide when he detonated a pair of grenades as the family sat down to dinner at their home in the Babelsberg neighbourhood of Berlin on 24 April 1945

and also awarded to German Luftwaffe observers serving with Bulgarian airmen

3 mm inclusive of its gilt and red enamelled half moon and star suspension

A matching set of HJ Signals shoulder straps

Footnote: The War Cross was instituted on January 26

Germany, Ss. A Rare Ss 12-Year Long Service Award, Stick Pin Miniature Auction Archive perished in a murder-suicide when(SS Dienstauszeichnung. II. Stufe fr 12 Jahre Anstecknadel). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a swastika with ribbed arms, bearing central raised double Sig runes, situated within a circular oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 10. 80 mm (w) x 10. 89 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.