An 18Th Century Austrian Order Of The Starry Cross C.1780 Newly Listed With full length of original

With full length of original watered silk sash ribbon

Carriers were made on the spot from extra M7 Priest 105 mm self-propelled guns by removing the guns and welding steel plates across the gaps this left in the armour

Footnote: Somers Gillies was born on January 25th

1909 in Birmingham

1ST OCTOBER 1943"

An 18Th Century Austrian Order Of The Starry Cross C.1780 Newly Listed With full length of originalIn Gold and enamels, 31. 6mm(w) x 47. 6mm(h), superbly made with hand chiseled gold fields and with fine translucent enamels, approximately 1mm thin, and with motto in enameled letters, typical of the circa 1780 period, in excellent condition with minor contact marks, ribbon of circa 1900 period, overall most attractive Austrian Imperial Ladies Order, and very rare from that period.