Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Newly Listed 41 mm (w) x 62

41 mm (w) x 62

the centrepiece in silver gilt with blue enamels and a large red bead in the centre

7 cm (w) x 5

during the entire four years of the war and served until the war's conclusion

76 mm x 45

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Newly Listed 41 mm (w) x 62(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central medallion bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER