Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Hold Three butterfly clips are distributed

Three butterfly clips are distributed across the interior of the collar

each star point with five emanating rays

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the interior of the cover bearing a handwritten inscription indicating that the owner of the album served aboard U-23 in 1917

the crowned two-headed eagle with shield insignia between each of the four arms having been removed

Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Hold Three butterfly clips are distributed(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). 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