Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Province of China 1937 until May 21

1937 until May 21

the suspension bearing an illegible maker’s mark

020 mm in length

impressed (2398 Serjt

the obverse with a pebbled frame and blackened arms

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Province of China 1937 until May 21(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