Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Auction with an E-Boat cutting through

with an E-Boat cutting through a series of waves (of note are the trademark first pattern waves)

in original case of issue with maker markings in top lid

The lifeboats were manned and in the process of them being lowered

the ranks of the battalion were filled in less than a month

Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Auction with an E-Boat cutting through(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