Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Hold A Medal of the Spanish

A Medal of the Spanish Blue Division in silver

measuring 390 mm (w) x 300 mm (h)

in silvered brass/tombac

and three silver rays behind the wreath in each quadrant stemming from the central medallion

With only slight spots of material fatigue and scratching evident to the outer wool and button paint

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Hold A Medal of the Spanish(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). 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