Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Frankfurt an der Oder Schutzpolizei Sleeve Eagle for Enlisted Ranks Archive Coat-of-Arms

Coat-of-Arms

Instituted 19 March 1808 by King Maximilian Joseph I

February 7

defeating the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia with minimal loss of life among his own forces and rescuing the hostages of Tewodros

Major Ludwig von Schwerin

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Frankfurt an der Oder Schutzpolizei Sleeve Eagle for Enlisted Ranks Archive Coat-of-Arms(Schutzpolizei rmeladler fr Mannschaften). Constructed of a mottled grey and police green cotton cloth base, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered green Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed black mobile swastika, topped by an inscription of FRANKFURT (ODER) in identical machine embroidery, unmarked, measuring 85 mm (w) x 95 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.