As already mentioned in my article: "A
rare Brunswick order", the order decorations with
swords for war merit are of extreme rarity. With a total
number of 6000 Brunswick decorations of the House Order,
order badges with swords account only at 4.6% with close
to only 300 pieces. (Please click the following list for
a complete list of all decorations awarded: Brunswick
Order Statistic).
You have to know in this regard, that
there are two different kinds with swords with different
award numbers. First of all, there is the type that had
swords underneath the cross, as awarded from 12.09.1870
on. Than there is secondly the type with swords through
the middle, awarded from 15.03.1909 on.
I like to introduce an original cross
with swords underneath the cross. It is an example of a
knight cross 1st class made by L.Heinemann (P.Baumann
Nachfolger), which were distributed through the gold
worker W. Kausche to the order chancellery. The piece
you find in the following picture was one of the pieces
awarded during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71. The
orders chancellery ordered only 88 of these special made
crosses.
Source: Stätisches Museum
Braunschweig; Arbeitsberichte; Roger Reckewell/Jens
Fischer:“Orden, Ehren- und Abzeichen des Herzogtums
Braunschweig Lüneburg von 1809 bis 1918“; 1987
