Albania, Principality. A Rare Order of the Black Eagle, Grand Cross Set visually-hidden beginning as a mobile campaign

beginning as a mobile campaign of swift infantry attacks followed by air bombing raids

extremely dark patina

the exterior bearing a black ink Reichsbahn-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

superimposed on black-enameled two-headed eagle

part of Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Hanauer Plakettenhersteller

Albania, Principality. A Rare Order of the Black Eagle, Grand Cross Set visually-hidden beginning as a mobile campaignInstituted March 26, 1914 by Prince Wilhelm Weid of Albania. A very rare Order, the Sash badge in silver, with eight white enamelled arms with crisp silver flattened finials at each tip, three small rays in the knee of each arm, the obverse medallion featuring a handpainted double headed black eagle on a red enamelled field, encircled by the inscription BESE E BASHKIM, the reverse presents a silver gilt disk with central symbol encircled by a red