Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration certificate_of_authenticity the reverse of the pages

the reverse of the pages are lined with paper to avoid contact with the photographs on the succeeding page

circumscribed by “HOU EN TROU” (“LOYAL AND TRUE”)

52 mm x 21

Henry James Sheppard of Niagara Falls

for 9 Years of Service

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration certificate_of_authenticity the reverse of the pages(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crossed hammer and mallet overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a wreathed inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 34 mm in diameter, weighing 23. 3