Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An 18-Year Long Service Award, with Case Auction Archive inscribed in black Fraktur script

inscribed in black Fraktur script

with a raised Stahlhelm on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field

constructed of fine dark grey wool

Badge: in silver gilt with red

whether there was a shortage of horses in England and the state of British manpower

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An 18-Year Long Service Award, with Case Auction Archive inscribed in black Fraktur script(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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