Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Republic of bearing a lion’s head quill

bearing a lion’s head quill on the one side and a quill consisting of a spade with a pickaxe superimposed on the other

significant chipping is visible to the enamels of the swastika and the base metal demonstrates bending to the one o’clock position

A matching set of Waffen-SS Medical Enlisted personnel shoulder straps

silver chains on the grip with wear to the grip

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Republic of bearing a lion’s head quill(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). 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