Norway, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Olaf In Gold, I Class With Swords, C.1890 Auction Grand Cross Badge: four-piece construction

Grand Cross Badge: four-piece construction

Footnote Oberstleutnant Graf Strachwitz: Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893–1968) briefly served as a Lieutenant during the First War

consisting of 1) A medal ribbon bar with an Iron Cross 1939 Second Class ribbon

He was profiled in a Toronto Star article entitled "Assisted Wounded Men"

measuring 207 mm (w) x 133 mm (h)

Norway, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Olaf In Gold, I Class With Swords, C.1890 Auction Grand Cross Badge: four-piece construction(Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden). Military Division. Type I (1873 1905). Instituted in 1030 by King Oscar I of Norway and Sweden. Consisting of a ball tipped enameled white Maltese Cross in Gold, quadrant featuring stylized crowned monographs O for King Oscar I also in Gold, obverse centre exhibiting a superposed heraldic Norway Lion in silver gilt, with a red enameled background, the 12 oclock arm superimposed by two enameled blue crossed