Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. A Silver Merit Cross For Art And Science, Prototype Example Hold who was born in Orwell

who was born in Orwell

with a field gray wool backer

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Belt is fabricated from a thick leather with a smooth finished black upper and a smooth finished dark brown underside

8 mm (w) x 38

Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. A Silver Merit Cross For Art And Science, Prototype Example Hold who was born in Orwell(Silbernes Verdienstkreuz fr Kunst und Wissenschaft, Prototyp). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with a central rightward facing profile of Duke Georg of Saxe Meiningen, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with an inscription of DEM VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath, with a stylized wreath through the quadrants, unmarked, measuring 36. 17