Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 GTRexclude edged with grey synthetic twisted

edged with grey synthetic twisted thread

the other with an additional leather tab with seven rows of two vertically oriented holes for length adjustment of the belt

(June 1917)

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53rd Infantry Battalion

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 GTRexclude edged with grey synthetic twisted(Brustkreuz des Johanniter Ordens Balley Brandenburg). Instituted in 1852 by King Frederick William III of Prussia in the typical style of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg, the Protestant branch of the Johanniterorden (Johanniter Order). A silver Maltese cross with a lightly pebbled obverse, the reverse with reinforcements to the cross but otherwise plain, with a vertical needle style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a broad wire catch, unmarked, measuring 53