BULLION BRITISH PREUSSEN ORDER OF THE BLACK EAGLE STAR

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PreuÃYen - Bruststern des Schwarzen Adler Ordens - Gleichfalls am 17. Januar 1701 hatte Friedrich I. den Orden vom Schwarzen Adler mit der vieldeutigen Devise âeoesuum cuiqueâe [Jedem das Seine] gestiftet. Damit wollte er den Adel des Landes an das neue Königsreich binden und nicht jedermann im heutigen Sinne Freiheit zollen. Der Orden vom Schwarzen Adler ist der Vorläufer des Polizeisterns.For sale is this truly magnificent museum quality example of a silver and gold bullion Prussian Order of the Black Eagle with integral blue Order of the Garter riband, as worn by H.M. King George V of Great Britain before WWI. As a long-time collector of Heraldic memorabilia, I wanted to create a replica of this unobtainable Award that would meet the highest standards of quality and excellence and would not have looked out of place on the Military tunic of the King himself. I commissioned a firm of embroiderers to produce an historically accurate and esthetically pleasing Star. The result has exceeded my wildest expectations. This superlative quality exclusive replica was created using close-up photographs of an authentic Star and is tfore precisely accurate in design, dimension and thickness to an original award. It has been laboriously hand embroidered by craftsman out of gold and silver plated ultra-fine copper wire, thinner than a human read more