Crown & Swords: Prussian Gold 12

Again, for the Prussian Hohenzollern House Order 3rd Class with Swords on combatant War Ribbon.

For non-Imperial collectors, this may be starting to get boring, with so many variations of the "same" device. But this was the highest Prussian award for officers to be worn on ribbon bars and is often the key to making an identification of an anonymous bar. It was the equivalent of the German Cross in Gold in WW1.

This is a wartime one piece device with typical thin square swords and a rather ugly filled in area over the crossed swords under the crown. This is unusually bad quality for one of these, with excess flashing not removed in the hand-finishing.

Courtesy of Deruelle