Belgium, Kingdom. An Order Of The Crown, Iv Class Officer And V Class Knight Auction Archive and with a plain external

and with a plain external rim

by far was the most successful of the United States Navy’s rigid airships

Extremely rare and unopened in its original carton of issue

the latter retaining a brown leather strap bearing an embossed maker’s mark of “R

Belgium, Kingdom. An Order Of The Crown, Iv Class Officer And V Class Knight Auction Archive and with a plain external(Ordre de Couronne). Instituted in 1897. IV Class Officer: multi piece construction, in silver gilt with blue, white and green enamels, measuring 44. 5 mm (w) x 64 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally pierced ball suspension, the left tip of the arm at 5 o'clock having experienced denting, causing crazing in the white enamels on the obverse, along with chipping and loss in the white enamels on the reverse, large rosette affixed to its original