Prussia, Kingdom. A House Order Of Hohenzollern, Miniature Knight’s Cross With Crown & Swords, C.1915 Hold attached to a thick silver

attached to a thick silver aluminum braid with a white rayon backer

with nearly all of its original black finish remaining

when it returned home to Italy

eight are inscribed (1916

overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching dual lightning bolts

Prussia, Kingdom. A House Order Of Hohenzollern, Miniature Knight’s Cross With Crown & Swords, C.1915 Hold attached to a thick silver(Kniglicher Hausorden von Hohenzollern Kreuz der Ritter mit Schwertern). Instituted 18 January 1851 by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (1864 1918 issue). In silver gilt, consisting of a Cross Patte with black and white enameled arms, with a green enameled laurel wreath joining the quadrants, obverse with a central white enameled disc bearing a black Hohenzollern imperial eagle, within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt inscription of VOM FELS ZUM MEER