Vatican, Papal State. An Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Grand Cross Breast Star consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and outer cartonage

and outer cartonage

18 awarded for Saxony-Altenburg

One featuring a Wolfgang Willrich illustration of Leutnant Wilhelm Fulda

Struss joined the Stahlhelm in 1923

70 mm (w) x 31

Vatican, Papal State. An Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Grand Cross Breast Star consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and outer cartonage(Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani). Instituted in 1099. An eight pointed silver star, each point made of three longer rays with three rayed arms in each corner, obverse centerpiece bears the Jerusalem cross in red enamel on a white background, surrounded by a green enamelled wreath tied together with a red bow at the bottom, reverse bears a single vertical pin assembly, measures 87. 3 mm (w) x 87. 7 mm (h), enamels all intact, extremely