Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords, C.1915 certificate_of_authenticity 1943 (TOPALSKY) UKRAINE

1943 (TOPALSKY) UKRAINE

then posted to 1st Quebec Regimental Depot on March 15th

pinback soldered in place on the reverse

possibly Agnes

the obverse centre bears the crowned cipher “WR” (Wilhelm Rex)

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords, C.1915 certificate_of_authenticity 1943 (TOPALSKY) UKRAINE(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Dukes Ernst I, Friedrich, and Bernhard Erich Freund. (1850 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with ball finials and white enameled arms, the quadrants joined by lions passant, pierced through the centre by crossed swords, the obverse bearing a central gilt medallion with a