This cross is an excellent example of a highly desirable early twentieth century Pour le Mérite of very fine quality wartime manufacture by Wagner of Berlin
and on the reverse twelve o’clock arm with the Romanov royal warrant
Footnote: Ernest George Frederick Caston was born in Brockley
Canadian Technical Training Corps (in bronze gilt
with the Navy equivalent known as the Dirigible Pilot Badge
Prussia, State. A High Order Of The Black Eagle, Breast Star To The Cross Of The Order, By Hamlet, C.1820 GTRexclude This cross is an excellent(Hohe Orden vom Schwarzen Adler Bruststern zum Kreuz des Orden). Instituted on 17. 1. 1701 by Duke Friedrich III of Brandenburg. Of characteristic Hamlet manufacture, consisting of an eight pointed faceted multi rayed silver star, the obverse with a dark orange enameled medallion bearing a black enameled eagle, surrounded by a broad ring of white enamels, inscribed SUUM CUIQUE (Each their own) in gilt lettering with a multi coloured enameled partial