Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years visually-hidden unusual and interesting

unusual and interesting

Footnote: Oberfeldwebel G

Remold was awarded the German Cross in Gold on June 6

The sweatband folds down to reveal a maker’s mark reading “WILLY SPRENGPFEIL

two with pins)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years visually-hidden unusual and interesting(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a period original I Class issue ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing an 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 an oval disc overlaid