Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case certificate_of_authenticity (Waffen-SS Koppelschloss)

(Waffen-SS Koppelschloss)

centre finely crafted in gold

82 mm (w) x 79 mm (h)

LUDENSCHEID" on the reverse

school in Tianjin

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case certificate_of_authenticity (Waffen-SS Koppelschloss)(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 disc