Ethiopia, Empire. An Order Of The Star, Iv Class Knight, Dignitary Issue, C.1895 Newly Listed to the Military Hospital Trent

to the Military Hospital Trent Bridge at Nottingham

As part of the Battle of Tugela Heights

the map measuring 607 mm x 627 mm

faint naming visible on the VM

maker marked "LAUER N B G

Ethiopia, Empire. An Order Of The Star, Iv Class Knight, Dignitary Issue, C.1895 Newly Listed to the Military Hospital TrentInstituted 1884. Type I. 1884 1900 Issue. A quality made award in silver gilt, consisting of a stylized and characteristic five pointed star featuring a beaded border and hand filed negative spacing, obverse centre embellished with a finely set red glass stone denoting that this particular award is an early example likely manufactured locally by B. A. Sevadjian of Addis Ababa for foreign dignitaries under Emperors Menelik and Haile Selassie, adorned