Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac very fine or better

very fine or better

The posts are marked “14K” and the butterfly backings are marked “MCG”

Footnote: The Sharpshooter Proficiency Badge was instituted in 1924 and until 1945

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Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac very fine or better(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei II. Klasse fr 18 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 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 central oval