Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Province of China 020 mm in length

020 mm in length

A Third Reich-era medal bar featuring four ribbons from the Second World War

the obverse with a pebbled frame and blackened arms

the suspension bearing an illegible maker’s mark

27 wounded and seven taken prisoner

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Province of China 020 mm in length(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a 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 number 8, circumscribed by an