Prussia, State. An Order Of The Red Eagle, Ii Class Commander, By Rosenthal, C.1900 Auction 12) A First War Picture

12) A First War Picture Postcard of Fritz Hofmann

Colonel General Alfred Keller (1882–1974)

AKA Sampson Medal (bronze

everything was out at night

0" and stamped in red ink with a spread-winged eagle standing upon a circled swastika over an "M" immediately to the left of the identification stamping

Prussia, State. An Order Of The Red Eagle, Ii Class Commander, By Rosenthal, C.1900 Auction 12) A First War Picture(Roter Adler Orden Bruststern zur 2. Klasse). Instituted 12 June 1792. Type IV. (1858 1918 Issue). A silver rhomboid shaped star corpus, with forty silver rays, on top of which lays the cross of the order, a Gold cross patte with white enamelled arms, obverse centre presents a white enamelled medallion depicting a hand painted Brandenburg crowned eagle, circumscribed by a white enamelled ring, inscribed SINCERE ET CONSTANTER (SINCERE AND PERSISTENT)