Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, I Class Knight with 1914-1918 War Dates consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a Schaumburg-Lippe Faithful Service Cross

a Schaumburg-Lippe Faithful Service Cross

An Early Luftwaffe Observers Badge by Assmann - Eagle patinated tombac with wreath in silvered tombac

an LP mark

It is unmarked with the exception of a silver embossed moisture resistance mark on the sweatband

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, I Class Knight with 1914-1918 War Dates consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a Schaumburg-Lippe Faithful Service Cross(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. Type II (1864 1918). Civil Division. 1 of 19 awarded. A beautiful I Class Knight in silver gilt, a white enamelled Maltese Cross with ball finials, passant lions in each quadrant between the arms, the superimposed dates 1914 and 1918