Austria, Empire. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Knight's Cross, by Rothe consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in a brown leather carrying

in a brown leather carrying harness

the reverse of the exterior maker marked “MAX V

along with a set of two downward-pointing hooks for attachment to a uniform

measuring 29 mm (w) x 27 mm (h)

At age forty-one

Austria, Empire. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Knight's Cross, by Rothe consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in a brown leather carrying(Marianer Kreuz des Deutschen Ritterordens). A fine example of this decoration, in silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Latin Cross with black and white enameled arms, the obverse with a central red enameled Geneva Cross on a white enameled medallion, surrounded by a ring of black enamel bearing an inscription of ORDO TEUT HUMANITATI (TEUTONIC HUMANITARIAN ORDER), the reverse with a white enameled medallion bearing a date of 1871,