Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Officer’s Dress Sword, by Peter Daniel Krebs Auction Archive HJ Proficiency Pin - Silvered

HJ Proficiency Pin - Silvered bronze

the reverse bearing a wreathed inscription of “VERDIENST IM KRIEGE” (“MERIT IN WAR”)

marked "REG

Pension Certificate number "40544"

The lower quarter of the scabbard bears raised oak leaf patterns on both sides

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Officer’s Dress Sword, by Peter Daniel Krebs Auction Archive HJ Proficiency Pin - Silvered(Polizei Degen fr Fhrer). A very well preserved Ordnungspolizei Officers dress sword, measuring 96 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 79 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade retaining factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. A fuller runs approximately two thirds of the top edge of each side of the blade. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of PET. DAN. KREBS, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the