Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive 8 mm x 83 mm

8 mm x 83 mm

measuring 108 mm (w) x 74 mm (h)

It is constructed of very fine quality

including examples of crusher caps

Solingen-Wald) on the blade's ricasso

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Archive 8 mm x 83 mm(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central oval