Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Gallipoli Star, With Case, German-Made Example In Silver consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Stitched onto the tunic above

Stitched onto the tunic above the right pocket is an insignia consisting of a field-grey rayon triangle bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

the chevrons sewn in place via yellow threading to a grayish-blue wool base

otherwise a scare decoration in extremely fine condition

Footnote: Robert Reuben Smyth was born on June 6

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Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Gallipoli Star, With Case, German-Made Example In Silver consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Stitched onto the tunic aboveA rare and exceptionally high quality example of a privately purchased Gallipoli Star (a. k. a. Turkish War Medal 1915), constructed of silver with enamels, consisting of a five pointed star completing in ball finials, the obverse with red enameled arms, overlaid by a raised and silvered crescent, surrounding a silvered Tughra of Sultan Mehmed V above an Islamic calendar date of 1333 (AD 1915), the reverse with an elongated rectangular depression