Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Newly Listed and for reorganizing the National

and for reorganizing the National Guard

"RANNIKKOPUOLUSTUR" (Home Guard) clasp and crossed swords clasps on its original ribbon

measuring 35 mm (w) x 8

originally printed and published in 1882 by J

constructed of two pieces of lacquered and black-painted wood

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Newly Listed and for reorganizing the National(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