Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight’s Cross GTRexclude Constructed of gilded copper bronze

Constructed of gilded copper bronze alloy

marked with the crowned royal ERII monogram and dated "1952-1977" on the lid

The eighteen classes of the house order were no longer felt to be appropriate in the ever more egalitarian Dutch society of the 1960s

measuring 140 mm (w) x 93 mm (h)

1 Clasp - NATO-OTAN (in rhodium-plated alloy

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, II Class Knight’s Cross GTRexclude Constructed of gilded copper bronze(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1890 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with Gold and multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials and joined through the quadrants by lions passant, the obverse bearing a central Gold