French, Colonial. An Order Of The Black Star, Grand Officer Miniature In Gold And Diamonds, Hold that it could have been

that it could have been fitted with a booby trap

each constructed of cardboard-reinforced red wool

swastika on the lid has been erased

and 6th Army Altipiani Commemorative Cross: in bronze

French, Colonial. An Order Of The Black Star, Grand Officer Miniature In Gold And Diamonds, Hold that it could have been(Ordre de l'toile Noire). Instituted in 1892 by Toffa, King of Porto Novo. Of superb French manufacture, consisting of an exquisitely enameled blue framed Maltese Cross composed of genuines finely cut diamond in its arms, featuring sets of multiple Gold rays with superposed genuines diamonds in each quadrant, with obverse centre exhibiting a finely enameled black five pointed star, plain reverse, suspended by a beautifully enameled green laurel wreath