Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Knight Of Honour Cross In Gold Buy Now 5 cm (w) x 13

5 cm (w) x 13

when the shell exploded

obverse depicts central RKS-style German national eagle on top of a stylized column and mobile swastika

backed by crossed rifles and framed by an open-ended wreath composed of branches of laurel leaves and oak leaves

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Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Knight Of Honour Cross In Gold Buy Now 5 cm (w) x 13(Ritterorden St. Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem Kreuz der Ehrenritter). Instituted 23 May 1812 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1852 1918 issue). Constructed of Gold with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms set within a Gold frame, joined together through the quadrants by crowned and black painted Prussian angles with the Gold base visible through the heads, the twelve oclock arm topped by a pebbled fan suspension