Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years visually-hidden Spring-guns and Air-guns

Spring-guns and Air-guns

Rall's signature in silver-coloured ink below his image

He survived the war and later returned to the United States

specifically responsible for Army Group Centre

43mm (w) x 48

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years visually-hidden Spring-guns and Air-guns(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing an 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 number 8, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE