Hesse-Darmstadt. An Order Of Philip The Magnanimous, Silver Cross, C.1910 Newly Listed He signed his Attestation Paper

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private with the 16th Infantry Battalion

but not before he personally shot five Chinese soldiers

early style short armed swastika with crossed hammer and sword

76mm in total length

body in maroon-coloured felt “fez”

Hesse-Darmstadt. An Order Of Philip The Magnanimous, Silver Cross, C.1910 Newly Listed He signed his Attestation Paper(Orden Philips den Gromtigen, Silbernes Kreuz). A silver cross pattee with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central light blue enameled medallion depicting the rightward facing outline of Philip in silver gilt, surrounded by a white ring of enamels, inscribed SI DEUS NOBISCUM QUIS CONTRA NOS (Latin "If God is with us, who shall be against us?"); the reverse with a central light blue enameled medallion with a silver gilt Hessian lion, surrounded by a