Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Auction good very fine and very

good very fine and very attractive

exhibiting some tarnishing

the interior is fleece-lined

the obverse with a machine-embroidered silver-grey threaded Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

some of the photos peeling away from the pages and exposing handwritten notes in ink on their reverses

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Auction good very fine and very(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1890 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials and joined through the quadrants by lions passant, the centrepiece pierced