Anhalt, Duchy. A Merit Order For Science And Art I Form, C.1900 Auction Archive (Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden Bruststern zum Komturkreuz

(Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden Bruststern zum Komturkreuz mit Schwertern)

this dagger features a 278 mm nickel-plated steel blade

" The book contains 88 pages of detailed text along with forty black and white photographic plates

There are several spots of soiling on the exterior and the thread on the shoulders boards shows some wear

Anhalt, Duchy. A Merit Order For Science And Art I Form, C.1900 Auction Archive (Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden Bruststern zum Komturkreuz(Verdienstorden fr Wissenschaft und Kunst, I. Modell). Instituted 30 July 1873 by Duke Friedrich I. (1873 1905 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of an oval sunray style badge with 24 points, the obverse with a central monogram of Friedrich I on a ribbed background, circumscribed by an inscription of HERZOG VON ANHALT (DUKE OF ANHALT), the reverse with an inscription of FUR WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST (FOR SCIENCE AND ART), inside of a laurel