A Mint Ss 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive and awarded early in 1919

and awarded early in 1919 to Italian

16th County of London Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles)

67 mm in diameter

WIBBY TORONTO" on the reverse

45 mm x 127 mm)

A Mint Ss 4-Year Long Service Award In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive and awarded early in 1919A textbook example of a SS 4 Year Long Service Award (SS Dienstauszeichnung); in blackened bronze; unmarked, but these medals were produced exclusively by Deschler & Sohn of Munich and Lorenz of Unterreichenbach; exquisite manufacturing quality with very fine details; the obverse bearing the standard SS runes within an open ended oak leaf wreath with ribbons on the bottom of the wreath; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS (For Loyal