four weeks shy of his forty-fifth birthday
due to haze and thick cloud cover over the German capital
) Naming is impressed in small block capitals
the medal is surmounted by the dual crowns and laurels
bordered by the inscription DEUTSCHES ROTES KREUZ (GERMAN RED CROSS) in gold on a black enamel field
Italy, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Maurice And St. Lazarus In Gold, Miniature, C.1900 Auction Archive four weeks shy of hisOf fine quality, likely German manufacture, in Gold with green and white enamels, weighing 1. 7 grams, measuring 17 mm (w) x 18. 8 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension, with ring, chipping and loss evident in the white enamels on the arm at 12 o'clock on the reverse, very fine. Footnote: The Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the House of Savoy, founded in 1572 by Emmanuel