Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helficht Auction and extensive non-period repair

and extensive non-period repair

with the First World War in its second year

measuring 148x208mm

The Reich Loyalty League of Former Career Soldiers was part of the Vereinigung Deutscher Frontkämpfer-Verbände = Union of German Front-line Soldier Associations

with the First Recruit Battalion

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helficht Auction and extensive non-period repair(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausordens). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1891 1908 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing profile of Duke Ernst, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a raised depiction of the Saxe Ernestine