Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier Buy Now without buttons to secure them

without buttons to secure them in position

mounted to a base in silver with eight blue enamelled star points

measuring 114 mm (w) x 117

original ribbon with palm clasp

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier Buy Now without buttons to secure them(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath bearing a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse overlaid by a central oval medallion