Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An 8-Year Long Service Award Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic In paper pocket of issue

In paper pocket of issue

A rare signed portrait of Manfred von Richthofen (“the Red Baron”)

the majority never before photographed for publication

The cap has one small moth invasion hole near the tip of the eagle's wing on the left side of the crown

the second numbered "31830" on the obverse

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An 8-Year Long Service Award Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic In paper pocket of issue(Dienstauszeichungen der Polizei, III Klasse fr 8 Jahre). 1938 1945 issue. Constructed of silvered tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, 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 a central raised number 8, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN