Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Province of China in turn topped by a

in turn topped by a silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

and bearing a central silver-grey machine-embroidered inscription of “AFRIKA”

measuring 158 mm (w) x 241 mm (h) x 34

many of the bronze medals with silvering

with the core nearly untouched

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Province of China in turn topped by a(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). 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 gilded silver with 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 centrepiece pierced