Polizei!

[Stogieman]

How about showing off some Polizei pieces? I'll start us off with a rather special medal bar. rarely does one find a mounted 18-Year LSC with the correct, embroidered silver eagle!

[Bob Hunter]

Very handsome medal bar, Rick.

[Stogieman]

Yes, this one was doubly-nice because the Schwarzburg piece was a nice, early silver one!

[Raz]

Very nice bar Rick.

No bars in my collection but here are my polizei pieces.

One day hopefully I will track down the alpanist and hoch alpanist badges.

Police qualification badges have to be my most favorite of all 3rd reich badges.

[Scowen]

I never tire of seeing these Raz.

Cheers

Don

[Robin Lumsden]

Here's a police bar......

[Robin Lumsden]

...and the back.....

[Robin Lumsden]

...close-up.....

[Robin Lumsden]

....and the EK bar.....

[Robin Lumsden]

....not medals, but police all the same.....

[Robin Lumsden]

My favourite police photo. This is how I feel after a day at the office.

[Robin Lumsden]

...and the blue ribbon still means the same thing today. But is this ribbon copying the Mother's Cross??? Or the Baltic Cross???

[Bill Dienna]

That's a great portrait photo.

Interesting particularly in that he carries his Imperial era lio head sword rather than the police officer's pattern degen.

[Guest Rick Research]

Yup, Methuselah was carrying his "tradition weapon," must have been in one of Baden's field artillery regiments from his awards:

Baden WW1 War Effort Effort Cross, Hindenburg Noncombatant Honor Cross, baden XV Years Service Cross, Kaiser Wilhelm I 1897 Centenary Medal, Baden 1902 Jubilee Medal, and ?. Ex-NCO, left the army before the war

the FIRST war

and in Polizei by 1914, probably.