Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Newly Listed with a white size tag

with a white size tag in place on the underside where the two ends of the sweatband meet at the rear

Sprenger Berlin SW 68 Old Jakob-Strasse 6

Footnote: In 1905

1956 by the Council of the town of Gembloux on the recommendation of the Franco-Belgian Committee entrusted with commemorating the fierce fighting in the region in May 1940 against the invading German army

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Newly Listed with a white size tag(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, 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 inscription