Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Schwarzburg Dutchy Honour Cross, Breast Star (Collectors Copy) Hold Entries include bombing trains

Entries include bombing trains

In 1925 he was awarded Württemberg’s Life-Saving medal

then invalided to England and hospitalized in Sheffield

gilt wear evident on the helmet

Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen, Principality. A Schwarzburg Dutchy Honour Cross, Breast Star (Collectors Copy) Hold Entries include bombing trains(Frstlich Schwarzburgisches Ehrenkreuz). Instituted on 28 May 1857. Post 1945 Copy. A silver eight pointed star, the obverse centre bearing a casted gilded bronze white enamelled Maltese cross, the centre bearing the crowned monogram GFC for Gnter Friedrich Carl, the reverse presenting a principle pin assembly, unmarked, measuring 88. 93 mm (w) x 88. 02 mm (h), weighing 98. 9 grams, and in near very fine condition.