Ethiopia, Empire. An Order Of The Star, Iv Class Knight, Dignitary Issue, C.1895 Buy Now East Medal Award & Document

East Medal Award & Document to Obergefreiten

It is signed in blue ink by Colonel and Regiment Commander Rudolf Demme

reverse dated 1864-1866

but it was reinstated in 1998 following the collapse of the communist regime

Ethiopia, Empire. An Order Of The Star, Iv Class Knight, Dignitary Issue, C.1895 Buy Now East Medal Award & DocumentInstituted 1884. Type I. 1884 1900 Issue. A quality made award in silver gilt, consisting of a stylized and characteristic five pointed star featuring a beaded border and hand filed negative spacing, obverse centre embellished with a finely set red glass stone denoting that this particular award is an early example likely manufactured locally by B. A. Sevadjian of Addis Ababa for foreign dignitaries under Emperors Menelik and Haile Selassie, adorned