Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Non-Permanent): George V

(Non-Permanent): George V

She asked to be painted by him and was disappointed when he refused

65 mm (w) x 39

with "Kruppianer" as loyal to the company and the Krupp family as to the nation and the Hohenzollern family

Sylvester on obverse

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Non-Permanent): George V(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from a 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 disc