Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Golden Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helfricht Archive 50 mm x 83 mm)

50 mm x 83 mm)

An Iron Cross 2nd Class Award Document - to Karl Wintermeier

The document is dated to “on board” on September 1

likely from folding/storage

The pockets at waist height measure approximately 185 mm x 207 mm

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Golden Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helfricht Archive 50 mm x 83 mm)(Goldene 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. (1871 1891 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing profile of Duke Ernst I, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central raised depiction of the