Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight’s Cross Auction Instituted 1982

Instituted 1982

a Destroyer engaged in minelaying in Norwegian territorial waters during April 1940

both unmarked and measuring 35 mm (w) x 115 mm (l)

including a 1940 Bavarian Wartime Harvest Appreciation badge

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight’s Cross Auction Instituted 1982(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse). 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 silver with Gold and 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 obverse bearing a central Gold