Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Miniature House Order Of Saxe-Ernestine, With 1914/18 Clasp, C.1918 Newly Listed 3rd Wisconsin Infantry in the

3rd Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War

Though the order is alleged to have been founded in its original form by Constantine the Great in Antiquity and then restored under later Byzantine emperors

measuring 151 mm (w) x 101 mm (h) each)

worn examples

1865) and HMS St

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Miniature House Order Of Saxe-Ernestine, With 1914/18 Clasp, C.1918 Newly Listed 3rd Wisconsin Infantry in the(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Miniatur). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials and joined together through the quadrants by gilded lions rampant, the obverse bearing a central gilt medallion featuring a raised profile of Duke Ernst, within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt inscription of FIDELITER ET CONSTANTER (FAITHFUL AND