Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction North Carolina)

North Carolina)

It was a part of the “Black Reichswehr” and operated in the late days of the Weimar Republic as the armed branch of the national conservative German National People’s Party (DNVP)

7 mm (w) x 49

in his capacity as King of Prussia

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction North Carolina)(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central medallion bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER