Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp Auction Archive minor imperfections to the enamels

minor imperfections to the enamels

in front of the light divisions near St

four Field Artillery Badges (19th

soiling evident in one corner)

Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Rare Fire Brigade Long Service Clasp Auction Archive minor imperfections to the enamels(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,