Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Auction Rhodium plated red brass

Rhodium plated red brass

set on a black cotton backer

maker marked "DENNISON BIRMINGHAM"

It features a 75 cm-long

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years Auction Rhodium plated red brass(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