Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years Newly Listed Extremely fine and rare

Extremely fine and rare

measuring 62 mm x 31 mm

a red embroidered cross in the centre

all edged with bright twisted silvery cord

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years Newly Listed Extremely fine and rare(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original parade mounted ribbon with a horizontal pinback, constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika on top of an oval