Austria, Empire. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Knight's Cross, by Rothe consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac At age forty-one

At age forty-one

measuring 29 mm (w) x 27 mm (h)

scuffing evident on the bottom

the cap is flanked on each side by silvered pebbled buttons holding in place a decorative chinstrap constructed of braided and twisted silver aluminum bullion wire

Austria, Empire. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Knight's Cross, by Rothe consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac At age forty-one(Marianer Kreuz des Deutschen Ritterordens). A fine example of this decoration, in silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Latin Cross with black and white enameled arms, the obverse with a central red enameled Geneva Cross on a white enameled medallion, surrounded by a ring of black enamel bearing an inscription of ORDO TEUT HUMANITATI (TEUTONIC HUMANITARIAN ORDER), the reverse with a white enameled medallion bearing a date of 1871,