Fake "Constructor" Breast Star of Saint Andrew Order made on the basis of Ludwig Order by Schnitzspahn in Darmstadt

Silver, gilding, gold, enamel.
Size 72.4 × 73.6 mm.
Weight 50.26 g.

Marked "Schnitzspahn" "in" "Darmstadt".

Happy-go-lucky birdies. Central medallion is a modern made fake.

 

Very same breast star right before it lost its original central medallion of Grand Duchy of Hesse Ludwig Order /Großherzoglich Hessischer Ludwigsorden/.

Original medallion that fell the victim to modern crooks.

Marks.

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Schnitzspahn, Christian (1829 –1877): medalist and coin die cutter, son and student of the Darmstadt court jeweler Martin Schnitzspahn, further training in Hanau and at the Academy of Arts in Munich under Professor Max von Widmann (1812 –1895). Schnitzspahn first worked in Berlin for the medalist Karl Johann, worked in London as an engraver in 1856, then returned to Darmstadt and was appointed court jeweler in 1858.