Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An 18-Year Long Service Award, with Case Auction Archive Instituted 1862

Instituted 1862

suspended from a 110 mm long chain

Each button is met on the opposite side by a reinforced button hole

one for general use in England

the cases ranging from near very fine to better than very fine

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An 18-Year Long Service Award, with Case Auction Archive Instituted 1862(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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