Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Newly Listed A Fine Quality Manufacture DJ

A Fine Quality Manufacture DJ (Deutsche Jägerschaft/German Hunting Association) membership badge

with a central white rayon blended disc measuring 92 mm in diameter

In October 1916

numbered "2812" on the rim

and entered the army as a surgeon the following year

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Newly Listed A Fine Quality Manufacture DJ(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1850 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials, joined together through the quadrants by lions passant, the obverse