Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years visually-hidden iron core and silver frame

iron core and silver frame (bottom marked “800”)

with a cockade in the centre

the reverse of the pinback demonstrating an unusual double maker’s mark in the form of Präsidialkanzlei code “100” and LDO code “L/55”

affording the Allies critical insight on coded communications and ciphers used by the Wehrmacht

Christopher Lauer

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years visually-hidden iron core and silver frame(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 post war 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