Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Hold the obverse swastika has been

the obverse swastika has been etched out and most of the silver finish has been lost

With only slight spots of material fatigue and scratching evident to the outer wool and button paint

one depicting a member of Husaren-Regiment 17

measuring 390 mm (w) x 300 mm (h)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Hold the obverse swastika has been(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). 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