Medal for guarding borders ?

[Ischak]

Guys, seller said it is medal for guarding german borders. Any opinions or info ?
What is average price ? I am interested in purchase.

thanks.

[milo1881]

Guys, seller said it is medal for guarding german borders. Any opinions or info ?
What is average price ? I am interested in purchase.

thanks.

this is a custom medal.

great original piece imo.
but... looks like it was in a ribbon bar???

it's could be about 140 euros or something.

best regards.

[Hans Kondor]

Nice interesting piece!

[Ischak]

what does mean custom medal in fact?

[milo1881]

what does mean custom medal in fact?

"The German Customs Service can be traced back to 1834 when a Customs Union was formed to allow the separate German States to trade amongst themselves without trade and tariff taxes, while still imposing import trade taxes on other European nations. With the unification of the German States into a single nation in 1871 the Customs Service became a national paramilitary organization, under control of the Reichsfinanzministerium, (National Finance Ministry), in Berlin. The national Customs Service was still responsible for imposing and collecting import trade taxes but was also tasked with border defence duties. In 1936 the Customs Service was reorganized and given further policing responsibilities including the apprehension of individuals attempting to escape from the NSDAP’s, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (National Socialist German Worker’s Party), yoke. The German Customs service was divided into two separate branches with one branch consisting of the Landzollbeamte, (Land Customs Officials), which was subdivided into the Zollgrenzschutz, (Land Customs Border Guards), and the Wasserzollbeamte, (Water Customs Officials), and the second branch consisting of the remaining Zollbeamte, (Customs Officials). On June 17TH 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed to the newly created position of Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), effectively giving him full control of all police agencies within Germany including the Customs service. On February 17TH 1939 Adolf Hitler instituted the Customs/Border Security long service decoration for award to loyal Customs/Border security personnel for loyal or meritorious service. The award was rendered in only one class and was awarded to Customs/Border security Officials for four years service and to civilian Customs/Border employees for eight years service."

[Ischak]

Many thanks!!! Now I think I will definetly go for that medal :P