Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight’s Cross Archive hallmarked on the pin

hallmarked on the pin

AKA Pestki) was a unit of Polish Armed Forces during the Second World War established in 1941 by the initiative of Lieutenant General Władysław Anders

the reverse retaining a label bearing an additional handwritten signature

parados and traverses came tumbling down

the reverse shows the raw stitching of the obverse eagle

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight’s Cross Archive hallmarked on the pin(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