Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander’s Star Auction Archive 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

A fine example of a Junghans Kriegsmarine Navigator’s stopwatch

While doing so she was attacked unsuccessfully by two torpedoes

Abby Lucretia Rice Fyfe was born in 1849

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander’s Star Auction Archive 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein(Greifenorden Bruststern zum Komturkreuz). Instituted 15 September 1884 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV and Adolf Friedrich V. (1884 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with gilt and enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst with shortened diagonal rays, bearing a central raised and gilded griffin, set within a circular red enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of ALTIOR ADVERSIS (AGAINST ALL ODDS) joined together at the