Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Hold a tab stitched in place

a tab stitched in place on the underside with a smooth finished black upper and raw underside on the right end

A Second War Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Cap Badge - Three-piece construction

unmarked but with physical evidence of Soviet manufacture

measuring 155 mm (w) x 232 mm (h) x 60 mm (d)

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Hold a tab stitched in place(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). 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 gilded silver with 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 centrepiece pierced