Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive and “LE MANS”

and “LE MANS”

measuring 257 mm in length

with holes on a side to be worn sewn up

London in 1883

A small American plane flew overhead and dropped a package of Camel cigarettes around a paper informing them that a peace treaty would be signed aboard the USS Missouri the next day at 1400 hours

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive and “LE MANS”(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath bearing a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse overlaid by a central oval medallion