Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Newly Listed as well as scratching and

as well as scratching and desiccation of the wooden handle grips

marked “MHEINLOTH”

a Prussian 25-Year Service for Officers

Published by “Dehmigte & Riemschneider Neuruppin”

Targets are

Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Newly Listed as well as scratching and(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