Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction V Class with crown with

V Class with crown with swords on ring

stating his birth year as 1875 and his age as 38

interlaced with gray threading giving definition to the wings

00 mm (w) x 53

IX - Operations in the Kurram District

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction V Class with crown with(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from a postwar replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central 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 oval