Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Newly Listed Type II with Laurel Wreath

Type II with Laurel Wreath (in silver with red

The interior consists of 224 white paper stock pages with a comprehensive study of Heer uniforms and accoutrements

within a ribbed ring bearing an inscription of “IN TREUE FEST” (“STEADFAST IN LOYALTY”) with oak leaf branches

a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Newly Listed Type II with Laurel Wreath(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1850 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials, joined together through the quadrants by lions passant, the obverse