Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Province of China 020 mm in length

020 mm in length

chipping evident in the green and white enamels on the arm at 12 o'clock on the MHOStLJ

27 wounded and seven taken prisoner

a fine quality miniature in extremely fine condition

A Third Reich-era medal bar featuring four ribbons from the Second World War

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Province of China 020 mm in length(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