Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A House & Merit Order Of Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Officer’s Cross With Swords, By B. Knauer, C.1914 certificate_of_authenticity small rip on p

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The front is completed by a vertical row of six metal buttons

number stamped "3968" on the reverse

Footnote: The Order of the Pillars of the State was awarded between 1936 and 1945

Duplassie recalled a specific incident to investigators after his release from captivity: "I saw Major Boon (Cecil Boon) go out of the camp five or six times in a Japanese vehicle

Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A House & Merit Order Of Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Officer’s Cross With Swords, By B. Knauer, C.1914 certificate_of_authenticity small rip on p(Haus und Verdienst Orden des Herzogs Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Offizierskreuz mit Schwertern). Instituted on 27 November 1838. A gilded silver cross patte with white enamelled arms, obverse centre presenting a gilded monogram over a blue enamelled background with clear radial under etchings, inside a gilded ring, surrounded by a ring of red enamel with the gilded motto EIN GOTT, EIN RECHT, EINE WAHRHEIT (ONE GOD, ONE RIGHTEOUSNESS, ONE TRUTH), the