An Exceptional Order Of St.anne With Diamonds C.1870 Auction complete with backing and cloth

complete with backing and cloth

some paper loss on the backer

1942 promoted to Obergefreiter at the 190th Luftwaffe Flak Battalion

with original tag on reverse

An Exceptional Order Of St.anne With Diamonds C.1870 Auction complete with backing and clothAn Exceptional Order of St. Anne with Diamonds c. 1870 Cross First Class, in Gold and Old European cut Diamonds, center enameled, with arms in red glass, circa 1860 1880; cross in finely crafted, thoroughly hand engraved and chiseled Gold, 58. 08x64. 75mm, unmarked, with (20) old European cut genuine diamonds (set in silver, soldered to gold, as it should be, standard procedure of the period); center with finely enameled portrait of St. Anne,