Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac is one of five Orders

is one of five Orders of Knighthood awarded directly by the Pope as Supreme Pontiff and head of the Catholic Church and as the Head of State of Vatican City

with the engraver's initials "E

Age-appropriate yellowing of the paper is evidence

The pennant is open on the base of the triangle where it was once attached to a vehicle

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class For 25 Years, With Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac is one of five Orders(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Stufe fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). 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