Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Miniature House Order Of Saxe-Ernestine, With 1914/18 Clasp, C.1918 Auction (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939

(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939

The book contains 632 pages of text

surface rust on the pickelhaube helmet insignia plate

long flap sewn to the back at the base with receivers for the brass snap buttons sewn mid-way up the back

Haight was posted to the Canadian Forestry Corps Depot at Sunningdale on January 16

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Miniature House Order Of Saxe-Ernestine, With 1914/18 Clasp, C.1918 Auction (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Miniatur). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials and joined together through the quadrants by gilded lions rampant, the obverse bearing a central gilt medallion featuring a raised profile of Duke Ernst, within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt inscription of FIDELITER ET CONSTANTER (FAITHFUL AND