Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Upon the ceasing of hostilities

Upon the ceasing of hostilities in Europe

the panel is stitched with an additional insignia consisting of a dark navy blue rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered tricolour cockade

clearly wearing a 1939 Iron Cross Ribbon

functional exterior metal hinge

the obverse bearing a raised pillbox topped by a crossed sword and shovel and a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Upon the ceasing of hostilities(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 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 an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription