Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal Archive A group of five stick

A group of five stick pins

officially reported Killed in action October twenty sixth nineteen seventeen

was later discharged as "Medically Unfit"

147 mm (h)

A fine early Victorian breast star by West & Son

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal Archive A group of five stick(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausorden). Instituted 25 December 1833. (1908 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central Maltese Cross bearing a wreathed Saxon coat of arms, circumscribed by an inscription of FIDELITER ET CONSTANTER (FAITHFUL AND STEADFAST), the reverse with a leftward facing profile of Duke Ernst II circumscribed by name and title, the