Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander’s Star consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac silver with white and blue

silver with white and blue enamels

Measuring 148 mm (w) x 210 mm (h)

Footnote: Awarded for 600 flying hours

Halkett and his men rescued by a Prussian ship

from Africaine on March 18

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander’s Star consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac silver with white and blue(Greifenorden Bruststern zum Komturkreuz). Instituted 15 September 1884 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV and Adolf Friedrich V. (1884 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with gilt and enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst with shortened diagonal rays, bearing a central raised and gilded griffin, set within a circular red enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of ALTIOR ADVERSIS (AGAINST ALL ODDS) joined together at the