Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. A War Merit Decoration Auction Archive measuring 117 mm (w) x

measuring 117 mm (w) x 55 mm (h)

Army Artillery Hauptman Shoulder Boards - constructed of silver Russian braiding with a pair of gilt alloy rank pips

the obverse with an early Luftwaffe eagle with down-swept tail feathers clutching a mobile swastika

stamped "B83271 SGT

on on December 13th

Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. A War Merit Decoration Auction Archive measuring 117 mm (w) x(Ehrenzeichen fr Verdienst im Kriege). Instituted on 7 March 1915. (1918 Issue). A zink medal, the centre obverse presents the letter B for Bernhard, on a cross patte, with an outer ring of dense oak leaves, surmounted by the imperial crown, the reverse presents the Saxony coat of arms, on the centre of the cross, surrounded by a ring inscribed FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT) IM KRIEGE (IN WAR) 1914 15, measuring 39. 64 mm (w) x 60. 46 mm (h inclusive of