United States. A First World War Purple Heart To George W. Schuster Hold an arrow cross with white

an arrow cross with white enamel arms and oak leaf branches in each quadrants

both covers engraved in red

Scarce on Luftwaffe backing cloth

measuring 51 mm (w) x 88 mm (h - inclusive of crown and horizontally pierced ball suspension)

United States. A First World War Purple Heart To George W. Schuster Hold an arrow cross with whiteLikely of Bailey, Biddle & Banks manufacture, this purple heart is in bronze gilt and enamels, the obverse presenting a left facing bust of George Washington on a purple enamelled heart, the reverse is privately engraved GEORGE W. SCHUSTER, the left rim is numbered 17598, worn on an original ribbon with split wrap brooch and a horizontal pin with a lock catch, measures 34. 5mm (w) x 46. 1mm (h inclusive of the integral suspension), weighs 35. 7 grams