Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction on a semi-gloss paper stock

on a semi-gloss paper stock

with examples constructed of gilded bronze and magnetic metal

It is a post-war copy of a photo taken in February 1944

On his medal

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction on a semi-gloss paper stock(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath bearing a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse overlaid by a central oval medallion