German Awards - Albert Association Carola Cipher

The Carola cipher is an award of the Albert Association of the Kingdom of Saxony. After working in field hospitals in Prague and Vienna during the war of 1866, Crown Princess Carola founded the Albert Association (named after her husband). This association has made it its mission to educate Catholic and evangelical women in nursing and emergency relief. As the future Queen of Saxony, she led the association as chairman and protector. The association became an interfaith sister community of "Albertines." In 1878, "Carolahaus," a community hospital in Dresden-Johannstadt, was founded as the mother house.
Albert Association documents were destroyed during the war, so neither award statutes nor award numbers are known.
It can be assumed that this award was awarded to women who earned in the club or worked in it for a certain time. Unlike Carola's medal, this award was apparently reserved exclusively for association members.
The rarity of this award also speaks of lean rewarding.

Broken work award in the form of a cipher made of gilded bronze.
The cipher is attached to a crown with a vertical bracket. Through this band ring for attachment to the female loop. Variants with an ear are known, as well as the attachment of the crown by a hinge.

Front side:

• Letters - C - R - with fine puncture and floral ornament.
• They are intertwined with each other and overpriced by the royal crown.

Downside:

• Smooth and gilded.