Awards Germany - Order of the House of the Golden Lion Embroidered Breast Star

The Order of the Golden Lion was established on August 14, 1770 by Landgrave Frederick II. Hesse-Kassel in one class. He celebrated his 50th birthday by celebrating civilian and military merit. The motto of the order is Virtute et Fidelitate - for virtue and loyalty. The order was not tied exclusively to any rank or class. The denomination also did not play a defining role. Particular attention should be paid to special merits, distinctive qualities, loyalty to the ruling house. The military had to be at least lieutenant general and had previously been awarded the military order "Pour la Vertu militaire." Civilians were to belong to the 1st class of civil ranks. The Grand Master was the corresponding ruler of the country, and the princes were born knights (from adulthood). The number of knights was not limited. The order obliged each knight to special loyalty to the prince. The main values ​ ​ of the order were considered virtue, loyalty, secrecy and charity. The badge of the order, worn on the sash, and the embroidered silver breast star depicted here were awarded. In the event of the death of a knight, the signs of the order were subject to return within 3 months. In 1818, Elector Wilhelm I expanded the order to 4 classes. The classes were now the Grand Cross, Commander 1st and 2nd. Class as well as Knights. Classes were now separated by position or rank. There was a principle of higher service. In 1821, the Order Chancellor was replaced by the Order Commission.
With the founding of the Order of William by Elector Frederick William I in 1851, who transferred 3 lower classes to this order, the Order of the House of the Golden Lion again became one-class. After the annexation by Prussia, the order was included in the number of Prussian orders and was subsequently lent by the elector. In 1875, after the death of Frederick William I, he was then excluded from the list of Prussian orders. Source: Jörg Nemmergut "German Orders and Insignia until 1945" Volume 1, 1999.

Achruchevaya, embroidered pectoral star. The rays are embroidered with sequins and silver sheet linings. The embroidered round medallion is embroidered with silver and gold wire.

Front side:

• Individual rays are made of smooth silver plates surrounded by a pearl border.
• The sin gaps are embroidered with superimposed sequins.
• Wide-knit medallion. This one is surrounded by an elevated gold border.
• The edges are made of gold cantile wire, bordered on the outside by small gold sparkles.
• Ring in the dungeon of red rips. It has a silver wire font from edge to edge:
• - VIRTUTE - ET - FIDELITATE - (For virtue and loyalty). Below is the decoration.
• Enclosed midfield underground with blue rips. A Hessian lion is embroidered on it.
• The lion walking to the left is embroidered in red and silver. Crown, leprosy and claws in gold wire.

Downside:

• The back side is reinforced with cardboard. It bears the manufacturer's label.
• Printed 8-beam star with large circular title block.
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• a narrow ring address: - Lower - Karlstrasse - No. 3 - the nearest - to the Museum.
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• Below is a flower. In a round midfield from above, large letters at the fracture - B. - G. -.
• Under the ornament - Brydenstein, -/- (small) gold embroiderer -/- (small) in -/- Hessian-cassel.-
• Under it again decoration.

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