Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years certificate_of_authenticity & Joe Manton

& Joe Manton

1934-1935 - This kepi has a reinforced sidewall and visor and is covered with two colours of twill wool

There is age soiling to the recess areas

all opening with scalloped flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting pebbled zink buttons

circumscribed by inscription “ITALIENISCH DEUTSCHER FELDZUG IN AFRICA” (“ITALIAN-GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA”)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Award, II Class for 18 Years certificate_of_authenticity & Joe Manton(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, stitched into a parade mount, 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