Austria, Empire. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Knight's Cross, by Rothe Hold with a functional push button

with a functional push button set into the reverse connecting to a clip which emanates from the ricasso to release the scabbard lock

but the project was never completed because of the political development

measuring 127 mm (w) x 188 mm (l)

the obverse overlaid by an Ordnungspolizei insignia

Austria, Empire. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Knight's Cross, by Rothe Hold with a functional push button(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,