Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Exceptionally Rare Police Ski Instructor’s Badge Republic of a ball-tipped enameled white Maltese

a ball-tipped enameled white Maltese Cross

the reverse absent an underlay and with guide threading visible

and on the band below rests a first pattern silvered tombak jawless skull

the other with one of two lugs intact

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Exceptionally Rare Police Ski Instructor’s Badge Republic of a ball-tipped enameled white Maltese(Polizei Schifhrerabzeichen). Instituted 17 November 1942. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of a stamped and silvered alloy, the obverse consisting of an oval ring surrounding a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, overlaid by a pair of skis highlighted in yellow, with the six and twelve oclock positions of the ring bearing an impressed