Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Auction British War and Victory Medals

British War and Victory Medals (902010 A

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It is also flanked on each side by pebbled aluminum buttons which secure in place a decorative chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Auction British War and Victory Medals(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 with embroidered device, 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 overlaid