while the handle shows some scratching and loss of paint
as he was invalided to Canada
along with the collar tabs
along with a fouled anchor and lion for “Birmingham”
overlaid by the monogram of Frederick the Great and a banner bearing an inscription of “Mit Gott für König und Vaterland (“With God for King and Fatherland”)
Bulgaria, Kingdom. An Order of Civil Merit, II. Class Grand Office, Austrian-Made, c.1930 certificate_of_authenticity while the handle shows some( ). Instituted August 2nd, 1891. (Type II 1908 1944). c. 1930. A cased Order of Civil Merit II. Class Grand Officer set, consisting of: 1. A Breast Star. A fabulous example of this award, of extremely fine Austrian jeweler manufacture, constructed of silver and gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a four pointed multi rayed silver cross bearing a white enameled Urdy cross adorned with green enameled thistles in the quadrants