Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years, With Case Buy Now 85 mm (w) x 85

85 mm (w) x 85 mm (h))

A badge with a central motif of a German mark 24 stick grenade crossed with a 98k carbine bayonet

and a small tear in the upper right corner of the first page

NEW YORK"" on the reverse

measuring 34 mm x 52 mm

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years, With Case Buy Now 85 mm (w) x 85(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 with a central raised number 8, circumscribed by a raised inscription of FR