Prussia, State. A Pour Le Mérite with Oakleaves, by Godet, c.1925 Buy Now revised in 1900

revised in 1900

The eighteen classes of the house order were no longer felt to be appropriate in the ever more egalitarian Dutch society of the 1960s

A unique example

37 mm (h) x 13 mm (w)

It was a part of the “Black Reichswehr” and operated in the late days of the Weimar Republic as the armed branch of the national conservative German National People’s Party (DNVP)

Prussia, State. A Pour Le Mérite with Oakleaves, by Godet, c.1925 Buy Now revised in 1900(Pour Le Mrite.) Instituted June 7, 1740 by King Frederick II. A very fine post war Pour Le Mrite, unmarked but typical cross by Godet, in silver gilt, a blue enamelled Maltese Cross with hand carved eagles in each quadrant, suspended from an oak leaf cluster suspension ring, measures 52. 57mm (w) x 54. 47mm (h inclusive of the extended pie shaped eyelet suspension), the oak leaf cluster measures 18. 90mm (w) x 21. 45mm (h inclusive of ring), weighs