Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case visually-hidden with a black ribbon

with a black ribbon

constructed of machine-embroidered grey threading on a dark grey wool backer

Each end of the frame completes with a sliding magnetic metal clip with dual rivets meeting studs emanating from the removable earphones

including an Ordnance NCO’s insignia

Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case visually-hidden with a black ribbon(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