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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 304

Germany, Prussia, a most attractive reduced-size Order of Wilhelm, overall 80mm x 70mm, the disc itself 10mm, a fixed chain with pins for wearing at each end from which the disc is within a wreath upon floral suspension with 'pearled' loop, silver-gilt and enamel, nearly extremely fine and rare

The Order was instituted in 1896 by Wilhelm II in the memory of his grandfather Wilhelm I, with the motto upon the full-size Chain being 'Wirke Irke Im Andenken an Kaiser Wilhelm den Grossen' ('Work in the memory of Emperor William the Great'). A highly exclusive Order, it was last conferred upon Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen in August 1913.

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£1,600