Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Civil Division, Ii Class Knight’s Cross Auction Archive A Soldier's Studio Portrait Photograph

A Soldier's Studio Portrait Photograph

measuring 53 mm (w) x 66 mm (h)

numbered "23355"

right side with a weakened restraining elastic

Shaved and neatly privately engraved in large capitals

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Civil Division, Ii Class Knight’s Cross Auction Archive A Soldier's Studio Portrait Photograph(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Ernst I of Coburg Gotha, Duke Friedrich of Altenburg, and Duke Bernhard Erich Freund of Saxony Meiningen. (1890 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with gilt and multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials, with each arm joined together through the quadrants by silver lions passant, the