Spain, Kingdom. A Royal & Military Order Of St. Ferdinand, Officer’s Star, By S. Garcia, C.1868 Auction Kraas’s regiment was defending a

Kraas’s regiment was defending a position that was attacked by the Russians

SUSCIPERE ET FINIRE NEC ASPERA TERRENT 1907” (SUPPORT AND LIMIT THE HARDSHIPS DO NOT DETER US)

although small

printed in black ink on a coated white paper stock interspersed throughout the book

1935 and carries a facsimile of federal leader Wilhelm Reinhard (1869–1955)

Spain, Kingdom. A Royal & Military Order Of St. Ferdinand, Officer’s Star, By S. Garcia, C.1868 Auction Kraas’s regiment was defending a(Orden Real y Militar de San Fernando). Instituted in 1811 by King Ferdinand VII. Isabel II (1833 1868) issue. Of early Spanish manufacture, a silver Maltese cross with separately overlaid Gold ball finials, obverse centre applique in Gold, consisting of a superposed enameled red swords united by the hilts with an enameled white background, surrounded by an enameled blue border inscribed AL MERITO MILITAR (To Military Merit), reverse with flat pin