Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years visually-hidden specifically responsible for Army Group

specifically responsible for Army Group Centre

The tunic exhibits scattered light mothing on the shoulders and sleeves

topped by four bands of silver aluminum wire piping bisected by a length of green threading

The son of Admiral Costanzo Ciano (a founding member of the National Fascist Party)

43mm (w) x 48

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, III Class for 8 Years visually-hidden specifically responsible for Army Group(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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 a number 8, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE