Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Newly Listed presenting one folding crease

presenting one folding crease

measuring 42 mm (w) x 37 mm (h)

Early version

as a reward for brave conduct and meritorious service in the national police forces of the kingdom as the gendarmerie equivalent of the Military Medal

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered golden-brown SS-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Newly Listed presenting one folding crease(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Stufe fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). 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 a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika and overlaying an oval oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a