Saxony, Kingdom. A Military Order Of St. Henry, Knight, C.1915 Newly Listed and Rear Gunner

and Rear Gunner

6 mm x 86 mm

with minor oxidation and loss of gilt finish evident

and with a fuller running approximately two-thirds of the length of each side of the blade

with a red cotton twill band trimmed with black cotton at the top and bottom

Saxony, Kingdom. A Military Order Of St. Henry, Knight, C.1915 Newly Listed and Rear Gunner(Kurfrstlich Schsischer Militr St. Heinrichs Orden). Instituted 1736 by Prince Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony. Type III (1829 1918). In silver gilt, a Maltese cross with white enamelled borders, a green enamelled crown in each quadrant, the obverse with a central enamelled medallion depicting St. Henry wielding a tri pronged sceptre and an orb, surrounded by a blue enamelled ring, inscribed FRIDR AUG DG REX SAX INSTAURAVIT, the reverse with a