Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class with Period Case, by Glaser & Sohn Province of China (Luftwaffe Tropenhelm)

(Luftwaffe Tropenhelm)

light traces of previous collector’s mounting evident on the reverse

a banner inscribed with “MIT GOTT FÜR FUERST UND VATER LAND” (WITH GOD FOR FIRST AND FATHERLAND) lays across the centre of the eagle

A portrait of Brüllau in plain clothes is riveted to the second page and stamped with two diagonally opposite stamps

Gautag badge (6-7

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Award, II Class with Period Case, by Glaser & Sohn Province of China (Luftwaffe Tropenhelm)(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular ring bearing an obverse inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), the obverse of the cross with white