Prussian Awards in India, 1911

[Ed_Haynes]

Prussian Awards, 1911

During the tour of the Prussian Crown Prince (son of Kaiser Wilhelm II) in India in 1911, awards were -- of course -- presented. While all of these would become naughty and unwearable within three years, it is worth recording these awards here.

A very good piece on the medal of the Order of the Crown, aber auf Deutsch: http://www.medalnet.net/crown_medal.htm

prussia.pdf

Edited April 8, 2006 by Ed_Haynes

[medalnet]

the link would actually be this one:

Crown Order Medal

After some bad experience with php programming I moved everything back to html. Sorry for the inconvinience.

[Stogieman]

Hi Ed! Thanks for posting this up!

[Ed_Haynes]

Andreas: Thanks for the correction! I shall update.

Rick: Thanks. The referenced Hesse file was not locatable, though I shall try again this summer. All rather moot as by 1915, no one was allowed to wear these things anyway, but it does give us a good picture of pre-1914 royal gong-giving. (And explain why the occasional odd Prussian medal surfaces in the "Old Counttry"!)

[Wild Card]

Prussian Awards, 1911

During the tour of the Prussian Crown Prince (son of Kaiser Wilhelm II) in India in 1911, awards were -- of course -- presented. While all of these would become naughty and unwearable within three years, it is worth recording these awards here.

Gentlemen,

Ed?s opening comment reminded me of a piece which certainly fell into this category. Some years ago, a fellow collector, now deceased, owned a collar to the Prussian order of The Black Eagle.

As you may know, when one of these collars was awarded, the recipient?s name and the date of bestowal was engraved on the reverse of one of the eagle links. This particular collar was first awarded to Maximillian I, Emperor of Mexico, on 13 January 1866; and one of the eagles was so engraved.

With the event of his murder in 1867, the collar was returned to the Prussian Orders Chancellery. Subsequently, several years later, it was reissued to a member of the British royal family; and again one of the eagles was also so engraved. It appears, however, that with the outbreak of World War I an attempt was made, with partial success, to remove the name. As Ed noted, it had become unwearable; but not, it would seem, returnable

Best wishes,

Wild Card

Edited April 8, 2006 by Wild Card