Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Hold buckle in aluminum

buckle in aluminum

lid impressed Patriae ac Humanitati 1864-1914 K

commander of the Jagdgeschwader 1 in August 1942

studio marked “ALBRECHT & MEISTER

BUDAPEST VII

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Hold buckle in aluminum(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Stufe fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 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