Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold It is a short cut

It is a short cut jacket with short tails in the back

The blade sits securely within a nickel-silver crossguard

circumscribed by a border of gilt and crossed swords behind

uppers in very fine gold-coloured bullion wire with a smooth finish and trimmed in two rows of silver-coloured rolled wire on the edges of the protruding spine

BENE MERENTI" (Well Meriting the Military Order of the Knights of Malta)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Hold It is a short cut(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from a period original cut down ribbon, consisting of an elongated 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