Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Hold and the throat’s spring catch

and the throat’s spring catch has weakened

" in Latin at the right

the suspension loop maker marked “KO” for a widely-document but unidentified manufacturer

With corresponding original award documents: award document for the Iron Cross Second Class 1870 Second Class

also including a Wehrfähig (fit for service) ribbon

Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Hold and the throat’s spring catch(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 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