Bavaria, Kingdom. A Long Service Award, II Class for 24 Years GTRexclude with a black rayon backer

with a black rayon backer on the reverse

connecting to a period original leather strap bearing an illegible maker’s mark

(Wehrmacht Dienstauzeichnungen für 4 und 8 Jahre)

and signed in blue ink by Knight’s Cross recipient Major and Wing Commander Friedrich Beckh (1908–1942)

A silver gilt eight-pointed rayed star

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Long Service Award, II Class for 24 Years GTRexclude with a black rayon backer(Dienstauszeichnungskreuz 2. Klasse fr 24 Jahre). Instituted 3 March 1865 by King Ludwig II. (1906 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed arms completing in ball finials and with arms joined through the inner quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a central Bavarian checkered shield, the reverse bearing a central ribbed shield overlaid by an inscription of XXIV DIENST JAHRE (24 SERVICE YEARS),