Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, I Class For 25 Years Newly Listed A Case for the Reconnaissance

A Case for the Reconnaissance Squadron Clasp

the insignia framed within a 22 mm wide band in white embroidery forming a circle

140 mm x 243 mm

a bronze cross pattee with a central silvered bronze applique

Each of the documents with the stamped signature of the Minister of Defence

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, I Class For 25 Years Newly Listed A Case for the Reconnaissance(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). 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 disc