Order Pour-Le-Merite - Rothe Newly Listed Soldbuch showing use and age

Soldbuch showing use and age

China 1857-60

First type

152 mm x 240 mm each)

Dunn was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on June 23

Order Pour-Le-Merite - Rothe Newly Listed Soldbuch showing use and ageIn silver gilt and enamels, 51. 50x51. 50mm, of typical Austrian (Rothe) manufacture, circa 1930s, with typical engraved lettering by this maker; suspension arch hallmarked with silver Wiedehopfpunze mark (used from 1922), also with 925 silver hallmark, and makers mark FR (for Rothe) however FR mark is stamped over with larger mark WB (presumably a makers mark of Austrian or German jeweler or military outlet); with short original ribbon, moderately