Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Ii Class For 18 Years GTRexclude BLACK & CO

BLACK & CO

The blade's reverse ricasso is maker marked ROBt KLAAS SOLINGEN with the company's kissing cranes emblem

which included the Edmonton Fusiliers

Garrick Esquire 1773

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Decoration, Ii Class For 18 Years GTRexclude BLACK & CO(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 period replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, 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 an inscription of FR TREUE