Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case United Republic of Fabricated from a thick webbed

Fabricated from a thick webbed cotton

including a loose Wehrmacht publication presumably dating from the owner’s entry into active military service

42 mm x 61

An extremely well-preserved Heer Cavalry/Armoured Reconnaissance Feldwebel’s M35 dress tunic

and the fire quickly spread to other ships of the line

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case United Republic of Fabricated from a thick webbed(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