Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Hold the interior of the cover

the interior of the cover bearing a handwritten inscription indicating that the owner of the album served aboard U-23 in 1917

marked "900 21" (silver

Three butterfly clips are distributed across the interior of the collar

The book contains 258 pages of text only

maker marked “RZM 72” for “RZM M1/72 - Fritz Zimmermann

Germany, Third Reich. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, with Case Hold the interior of the cover(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 bearing a central oval