Congo, Democratic Republic. A National Order Of The Leopold, Military, Iii Class Commander, By Arthus Bertrand Newly Listed with castle style crown and

with castle style crown and early ridge lined suspension ring

the reverse covered in fine quality mother of pearl

(6556 CORL W

He was promoted to the Allgemeine-SS rank of SS-Untersturmführer that year and to SS-Obersturmführer on April 20

marked "L 54" on the pin

Congo, Democratic Republic. A National Order Of The Leopold, Military, Iii Class Commander, By Arthus Bertrand Newly Listed with castle style crown andType I (1967 1971). In silver with red, white and blue enamels, marked with a wreath above the maker mark "A. B. & Co" (Arthus Bertrand) and marked "800" (silver) on the loop, measuring 47. 3 mm (w) x 68 mm (h) inclusive of its crossed swords suspension, intact enamels, slight tarnishing on the obverse, on an original shortened neck ribbon with the colours used on the award when the country was known as Zaire (1971 1997), extremely fine. Footnote: The