Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years Archive bearing dual machine-embroidered silver aluminum

bearing dual machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresses

all constructed of plastic - except one

1918 at Vis-en-Artois

two vertical pins with pinch pin clasps

30 mm (w) x 21

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years Archive bearing dual machine-embroidered silver aluminum(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 parade mounted ribbon with a horizontal pinback, constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika on top of an oval