Order Pour-Le-Merite - Rothe Newly Listed received a Canadian Pacific Telegram

received a Canadian Pacific Telegram from the Director of Records in Ottawa

TALAVERA 1809

several flotillas of submarines were sent to the Baltic

She exploded and sank in less than a minute

but soon recovered

Order Pour-Le-Merite - Rothe Newly Listed received a Canadian Pacific TelegramIn silver gilt and enamels, 51. 50x51. 50mm, of typical Austrian (Rothe) manufacture, circa 1930s, with typical engraved lettering by this maker; suspension arch hallmarked with silver Wiedehopfpunze mark (used from 1922), also with 925 silver hallmark, and makers mark FR (for Rothe) however FR mark is stamped over with larger mark WB (presumably a makers mark of Austrian or German jeweler or military outlet); with short original ribbon, moderately