Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Republic of all opening with straight horizontal

all opening with straight horizontal flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting pebbled pebbled zink buttons

bearing a lion’s head quill on the one side and a quill consisting of a spade with a pickaxe superimposed on the other

significant chipping is visible to the enamels of the swastika and the base metal demonstrates bending to the one o’clock position

case exhibiting light scuffing on the exterior

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Republic of all opening with straight horizontal(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). 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