Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Auction and exhibits a sharp tip

and exhibits a sharp tip

in a duty of great responsibility

a Württemberg Military Merit Order

van WIELIK / Leveranciers van de Kanselarij der Nederl

it went to France as part of the abortive Second British Expeditionary Force

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Auction and exhibits a sharp tip(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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 bearing a central raised number 8, circumscribed by an