Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. An Honour Cross For War Merit Document To Leutnant Kurt Seifert, 1917 GTRexclude Scattered gilt wear and contact

Scattered gilt wear and contact marks on the first two medals

he was appointed Chief of the General Staff

with a central gilded ribbed centre within an oak leaf border

depicting a large national eagle standing atop a wreathed mobile swastika that has been painted blue

with all three reverse attachment prongs intact

Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. An Honour Cross For War Merit Document To Leutnant Kurt Seifert, 1917 GTRexclude Scattered gilt wear and contactA Saxe Meiningen Honour Cross for War Merit certificate to Leutnant of the reserve in Surveying Detachment 7 with the Supreme Command of Army Group von Below, Kurt Seifert, royal Prussian land surveyor from Meiningen. Awarded by Duke Bernhard on 4 February 1917. Measuring 210 mm (w) x 329 mm (h), presenting two folding creases, light creasing of the bottom edge, and one minor tear, remains very fine.