WORLD ORDERS AND DECORATIONS 758
Germany, Württemberg, ORDER OF FRIEDRICH, Knight’s 1st Class badge, bronze-gilt and enamel, originally with swords but these now missing, enamel damage; Germany, POUR LE MERITE, Civil issue, gilt and enamel copy, enamel damage; Belgium, CROIX DE GUERRE, ‘A’ cypher; Spain, ‘REAL ACADEMIA DE NOBLES ARTES DE ST FERNANDO’, gilt; Kuwait, MILITARY SERVICE MEDAL, 3rd Class, bronze; G.B., MASONIC, PEACE MEDAL 1914-18 (Bro. J. W. Gross, No.1541) fine and better (6) £100-150
759
Germany, AIRSHIP CREW MEMBER’S BADGE, by F.L.L., central bronze-gilt medallion depicting the LZ 127 in flight, and green enamelled surround with ‘Luftschiff LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin’, 45mm., reverse with original pin- device for wearing, good very fine and rare
£150-200
One of the most famous airships of all time, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flew commercially from 1928-37, making a total of 590 flights which covered over a million miles, including those of the cross-Atlantic variety and a round-the -world trip in 1929. But her illustrious career came to a sudden end in May 1937, when the LZ 129 Hindenburg met her costly demise at Lakehurst in the U.S.A., thereby enforcing the 127’s immediate withdrawal from commercial work. She was eventually scrapped on the orders of Goring in March 1940, but not before having carried out a number of propaganda flights in Germany at the behest of Goebbels.
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Germany, Third Reich, S.S. LONG SERVICE MEDAL, for 4 Years, black metal, incorrect ribbon; WAR MERIT CROSS 1939, 2nd Class, without swords; CROSS OF HONOUR OF THE GERMAN MOTHER, 3rd Class, bronze and enamel, very fine (3) £100-140
Germany, Democratic Republic, NATIONAL PEOPLE’SARMYMEDAL OFMERIT, gilt; MINISTRY OF THE INTERIORMILITARY
L.S.MEDAL (3) for 30, 25 and 20 years service, gilt; ARMEDWORKERMERITMEDAL (2) gilt, all mounted ‘Russian’ style; PEOPLE’SARMY SPORTSMEDAL, 51mm., gilt, with neck ribbon; together with seven riband bars, generally extremely fine (14)
£30-40
Greece, Fascist, E.O.N. (Ethniki Organosis Neolaeas - National Youth Organisation) MEDAL, 28mm., bronze, obverse: Greek double-headed axe, ‘E.O.N.’, reverse, Greek inscription, dated ‘1940’; E.O.N. stick-pin - crowned Greek double- headed axe within a wreath, bronze; FASCIST MEDAL, 38 x 29mm., bronze-gilt and enamel, bearing the letters, ‘NIKH’, Greek inscription on reverse, enamel repaired, generally very fine, scarce (lot)
£100-150
With nine portrait photographs of two brothers - six in E.O.N. uniform; one in naval uniform; one in Army uniform and one in Italian fascist uniform mimicking Benito Mussolini! The photographs, where marked, were taken by a photographer in Sparta.
763
International, SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM, RHODES & MALTA, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with ‘shield and riband’ suspension, with neck cravat; together with a miniature dress medal, enamelled, in Johnson, Milan/Rome case of issue, MASONIC, ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM PALESTINE RHODES & MALTA, circular neck badge by G. Kenning & Son, 55mm., silver-gilt and enamel, Birmingham hallmarks, with neck cravat in case of issue, good very fine (2)
£140-180 inside of the case for the masonic badge is inscribed with the name ‘W. E. Menday’. 764
Japan, ORDER OF THE RISING SUN, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel with red cabochon centre, rosette on ribbon, with lapel rosette, in slip-top lacquer case of issue, complete with red cords, extremely fine £120-160
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