Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Long Service Decoration For Domestic Service, C.1900 Auction suffering a gun shot wound

suffering a gun shot wound to his chest

silvered bronze reverse

he was ambushed as he was taken to Budapest

of superb quality manufacture (hand assembled

233 of the General Assembly approved the twenty-eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Long Service Decoration For Domestic Service, C.1900 Auction suffering a gun shot wound(Ehrenauszeichnung fr Dienstboten fr langjhrige treue Dienstleistung) Instituted 16 September 1886. Type I. A cross trefle constructed of silver, the obverse centre bears two intertwined letter Es, the reverse centre bears the number 30 and is circumscribed with FR TREUE DIENSTE (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE), the arms of the obverse and reverse have raised graduated edges, the centre of the arms have a strip of raised points, and the shamrock shaped ends