Saxe-Weimar, Grand Duchy. A 1914 General Honour Badge For Merit, Silver Grade, With Sword Clasp Hold 18 mm x 44

18 mm x 44

late Nineteenth Century

The shoulders are flanked by silvered

proposed that a more likely cause for the sinking was from a magazine explosion within the vessel

(Orden Adophs von Nassau

Saxe-Weimar, Grand Duchy. A 1914 General Honour Badge For Merit, Silver Grade, With Sword Clasp Hold 18 mm x 44(Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen in Silber Dem Verdienste 1914 mit Schwerterspange). Instituted 25 June 1902 by Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with sword clasp, the obverse with a raised leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of DEM VERDIENST 1914 (FOR MERIT 1914), within an oak leaf