Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helficht Auction with the First World War

with the First World War in its second year

with the First Recruit Battalion

inscribed in green ink "CHOCOLATE & BOILED SWEETS"

5mm) in silver with gold swords and centre

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

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helficht Auction with the First World War(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