Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A 30-Year Honour Cross For Servants, C.1890 Archive WWI 205th Infantry Battalion Hamilton

WWI 205th Infantry Battalion Hamilton Tiger Battalion Insignia - Pickled copper

number impressed "21700" on the edge

small enamel flaking on 6 o'clock reverse arm extremely fine

On the back of the folder is a list of content

each constructed of cardboard-reinforced white wool and bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A 30-Year Honour Cross For Servants, C.1890 Archive WWI 205th Infantry Battalion Hamilton(Silberne Ehren Auszeichnung fr 30 Jahre). Instituted 16 September 1886 by Duke Ernst I. (1886 1895 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Shamrock Cross, the obverse with a central raised number 30, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE), the reverse with a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst I, unmarked, measuring 44. 39 mm (w) x 49. 17 mm (h),