Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight's Cross Auction Archive certified by the handwritten signature

certified by the handwritten signature of an Oberst Mach as a stand-in commander

1219 on the 9 o’clock arm

254 mm x 305 mm)

26 mm (w) x 31

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight's Cross Auction Archive certified by the handwritten signature(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 gilt 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 overlaid by a central