Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Later that day

Later that day

on a 56 mm pin

his death officially attributed to his military service

the manufacturer’s logo of an underlined and stylized “STH” for Stahlhof Magdeburg

People's Republic: two Post-1945 Manufactured Regimental Badges: Killed in Action Badge (in silvered bronze

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction Later that day(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 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 raised inscription