with a celluloid face
bordered by the inscription DEUTSCHES ROTES KREUZ (GERMAN RED CROSS) in gold on a black enamel field
but the flag is in an otherwise extremely fine condition
due to haze and thick cloud cover over the German capital
four weeks shy of his forty-fifth birthday
Italy, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Maurice And St. Lazarus In Gold, Miniature, C.1900 Auction Archive with a celluloid faceOf fine quality, likely German manufacture, in Gold with green and white enamels, weighing 1. 7 grams, measuring 17 mm (w) x 18. 8 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension, with ring, chipping and loss evident in the white enamels on the arm at 12 o'clock on the reverse, very fine. Footnote: The Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the House of Savoy, founded in 1572 by Emmanuel