Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint and Unissued Police Long Service Award, I. Class for 25 Years, c. 1939 Archive combatant’s bronze issue

combatant’s bronze issue

printed and bound by The Ryerson Press

the obverse consisting of a central blackened and silvered 1914 Iron Cross

1916 and signed in black ink by the regiment’s commander

(PAnzerkampfabzeichen) Instituted 20 December 1939 by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Braunchitsch

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint and Unissued Police Long Service Award, I. Class for 25 Years, c. 1939 Archive combatant’s bronze issue(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted January 30th, 1938. (c. 1939 issue). Constructed of fire gilded bronze, on a fixed loop and swivel ring for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with lightly textured arms, the obverse bearing 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