Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction and Military Order of Calatrava:

and Military Order of Calatrava: silver gilt and red enamels

It was a part of the “Black Reichswehr” and operated in the late days of the Weimar Republic as the armed branch of the national conservative German National People’s Party (DNVP)

The metal casing has two upward-pointing adjustments on the bottom edge of the frame

in his capacity as King of Prussia

reads “Nord - Nordmark”

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, I Class For 25 Years, With Case Auction and Military Order of Calatrava:(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central medallion bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER