Germany, Rnst. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Faithful Service Badge Hold with a gilded and enameled

with a gilded and enameled crown suspension

Robert Allan of Montreal

dated 1901 (awarded for a third prize by his fellow Officers)

Textbook badge in fire gilded tombac

Likely of French manufacture

Germany, Rnst. A Reichsnährstand 40-Year Faithful Service Badge Hold with a gilded and enameled(Reichsnhrstand Ehrenzeichen fr 40 Jahre Treue Dienste). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsnhrstand (RNST) style German national eagle perched on top of a RNST insignia, above an inscription of 40 REICHSNHRSTAND, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 34 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.