Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Honour Cross, by H.Rose, c.1915 Auction 1916" below the photograph

1916" below the photograph

1918 and was taken on strength of the 259th Infantry Battalion on November 1

He has some original ideas and plenty of shrewd common sense and a nice quiet sense of humour

the obverse depicting a leaping horse with a rider wielding a saber

Eyewitness accounts varied and were rather contradictory but it appeared that the aircraft spun from about 1500 feet and was in the process of recovering when it struck a hillside

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Honour Cross, by H.Rose, c.1915 Auction 1916" below the photograph(Greifen Orden, Ehrenkreuz). Instituted 15 September 1884 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. (1884 1918 issue). In silver gilt with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with red enameled arms, with a central medallion bearing a raised Griffin, the reverse with five visible rivets securing the structure together, with a barrel hinge and banjo style vertical pinback meeting a round catch, unmarked, measuring 56. 3 mm (w) x 56. 9 mm (h),