Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Grand Cross Star, By Heinrich Rose, C.1910 Newly Listed Signed for Major Gunzel

Signed for Major Gunzel

There is a three-colour cockade of Imperial Germany on the right side and a black and white cockade of Prussia on the left side

and a marker mark by Scully

0mm x 25mm

A Leutnant (Lieutenant) shoulder board constructed from braided aluminum-thread wrapped two side-by-side lengths of braid around the buttonhole and back

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Grand Cross Star, By Heinrich Rose, C.1910 Newly Listed Signed for Major Gunzel(Greifen Orden, Bruststern zum Grokreuz). Instituted 15 September 1884 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. (1884 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with enamels, consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, the obverse with a central raised gilt medallion bearing a finely detailed gilt Griffin, surrounded by a ribbed silver ring, within a ring of red enamel bearing a raised gilt inscription of ALTIOR ADVERSIS (AGAINST ALL ODDS) and laurel leaf branches,