Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Ordnungspolizei Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years Archive the lightning bolts

the lightning bolts

8 mm (w) x 83

with size stamps “94

a photograph with a handwritten reverse inscription of “PANZER HILFT NOTGELANDETEN STUKA BEI TOBRUK” (“PANZER HELPS WITH AN EMERGENCY LANDING OF A STUKA NEAR TOBRUK”)

the right upper arm bears a edelweiss sleeve insignia constructed of grey

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Ordnungspolizei Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years Archive the lightning bolts(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 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 raised inscription of