Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of The Red Eagle, I Class Breast Star, C. 1870 GTRexclude Snell (2nd Navigator)

Snell (2nd Navigator)

( 2154 Serjt John Connelly 17th Regt

A rare and desirable commemorative bone folder gifted to NSDAP artist and bookbinder Frieda Thiersch

the twelve o’clock arm with a ribbed fan and integral suspension loop connected to its period original ribbon

The blade presents plain with the exception of a partially-legible acid-etched maker’s mark on the reverse ricasso for the Štós-based firm of Wlaszlovits

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of The Red Eagle, I Class Breast Star, C. 1870 GTRexclude Snell (2nd Navigator)(Roter Adler Orden, Bruststern zum I. Klasse). Instituted 12 June 1792 by King Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1861 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a hand painted red Hohenzollern imperial eagle executed in exceptional detail, set within a ring of white enamel bearing a gilt inscription of SINCERE ET CONSTANTER