Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years Auction Archive 1939 and signed in black

1939 and signed in black ink by Vice Admiral and Fleet Leader Wilhelm Marschall (1886–1976)

Lieutenant General of the First War

A gilded bronze Cross Pattée with a separately crowned double-headed eagle applied to the obverse

late 19th Century

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years Auction Archive 1939 and signed in black(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 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