Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 13cm x 8cm

13cm x 8cm

with a large button on the underside of the collar on both sides

65 mm (w) x 39

and gilt and enamel observer mess dress half wing

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 13cm x 8cm(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from a replacement 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