Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Auction comprising a black lacquer exterior

comprising a black lacquer exterior with removable lid featuring gilt Paulownia flowers and an adhered image of the decoration on the exterior and Japanese characters on the interior

exhibiting some tarnishing

consisting of a silver gilded star with eight-pointed multi-rayed arms

good very fine and very attractive

Marksman (red embroidered insignia with black threading

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Auction comprising a black lacquer exterior(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