Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Auction A 1936 “Freiheit und Brot”

A 1936 “Freiheit und Brot” election badge (March 29

09 mm (w) x 36

marked ZDVRK

a large bow-tied ribbon sewn in place near the bottom end for the placement of the badge

before becoming General Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army Corps

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Auction A 1936 “Freiheit und Brot”(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1850 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials, joined together through the quadrants by lions passant, the obverse