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Police 18 Year Long Service Medal

$150.00

Condition: Excellent

Base Material: Buntmetall

SKU: E2358 Category: Long Service Awards Tags long service, Medal

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Product Description: An attractive Police 18 Year Long Service Medal, representing the distinctive pattern awarded for honorable service within the German Police during the Third Reich period. Constructed of buntmetall, this early-quality example possesses the substantial weight and refined craftsmanship characteristic of pre-war German award production.

The medal retains sharp, well-defined detail throughout, with all original design elements remaining crisp and fully intact. The obverse and reverse exhibit an even patina throughout creating a dark toning across most of the silver finish. These natural signs of age contribute to the medal’s authentic wartime character and collector appeal.

Accompanying the award is its original period ribbon with embroidered police eagle, but missing the original brooch. The piece maintains very good overall presentation and strong visual appeal. Overall this medal rates in excellent condition.

Displaying honest age, quality construction, and unmistakable period character, this Police 18 Year Long Service Medal stands as an appealing original example of a sought-after German police service decoration and would make an excellent addition to any advanced WWII awards or Third Reich militaria collection.

Historical Description: Prior to WWII, the German military and civil authorities instituted a wide range of Long Service Awards to reward personnel for years of service. These awards were used by all branches of the German military, as well as civil and political organizations such as the police, the customs service, and the National Labor Service (RAD). There was also a general Long Service Award for civil service. Each of these awards was issued in the form of a medal that was suspended from a cornflower blue ribbon. Many of these were made in different grades denoting a specific number of years of service. They were worn on the uniform in the form of ribbon or medal bars, and up to two long service awards could be worn at the same time. In most cases, a device affixed to the ribbon bar would denote for which service the award had been issued; sometimes the medals themselves had devices on the ribbons, either in the form of pinned-on metal emblems, or else hand or machine embroidery applied directly to the ribbon. Some German Long Service Awards were very widely awarded, others were made and issued only in small numbers.

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