Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Long Service Decoration, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Archive within an ornate border

within an ornate border

A desirable textbook example of Waffen-SS 3rd Panzer Division “Totenkopf” (“Death’s Head”) NCO's right-hand-side tab

particularly one picture being described as showing “our company building in the snow

(Nationalsocialistisches Kraftfahr-Korps = NSKK): In nickel silver

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Mint Long Service Decoration, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Archive within an ornate border(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre 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 oval