Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 Auction 2 mm inclusive of suspension

2 mm inclusive of suspension

The SS motto is clean and crisp and deep

he was posted to the Submarine Base and Depot H

He was later attached to the Canadian War Records Department at London as Clerk Class II

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 Auction 2 mm inclusive of suspension(Brustkreuz des Johanniter Ordens Balley Brandenburg). Instituted in 1852 by King Frederick William III of Prussia in the typical style of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg, the Protestant branch of the Johanniterorden (Johanniter Order). A silver Maltese cross with a lightly pebbled obverse, the reverse with reinforcements to the cross but otherwise plain, with a vertical needle style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a broad wire catch, unmarked, measuring 53