Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years United Republic of 48 (w) x 78

48 (w) x 78

exhibiting bubbling

the announcement appearing in the Second Supplement to the London Gazette 29151 of Friday

each unmarked

and was unconcerned as if a thousand miles away from the war

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years United Republic of 48 (w) x 78(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 20 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a postwar replacement 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 medallion