Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 Auction The SS motto is clean

The SS motto is clean and crisp and deep

he was posted to the Submarine Base and Depot H

upper of the belt in black rayon with 13 mm wide strips of ornate gold-coloured bullion wire sewn on either side and travelling the length of the belt

signature is in pencil

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 Auction The SS motto is clean(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