Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration I Class Bar For 21 Years GTRexclude and Miniature: two-piece construction

and Miniature: two-piece construction

The exterior leather shell is very well preserved

the Royal Navy Navigation School at Portsmouth

stamped by maker’s mark E

written in Dutch

Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration I Class Bar For 21 Years GTRexclude and Miniature: two-piece construction(Militar Dienstauszeichnungen) Instituted 18 June 1825. A bar of gilded non magnetic metal, bearing the cipher of Friedrich Wilhelm III (F. W. III.) on a pebbled background, affixed on a blue ribbon with yellow edges with a metal backer with horizontal pinback with a round wire catch, measuring 42. 50 mm (w) x 39. 14 mm (h), very fine.