Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Bravery Medal in Bronze, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac one the award

one the award

base incorporating a raised platform in black felt with a recessed medal bed

measuring 65 mm in width x 82 mm in length x 67 mm in height

A centre piece from a 1914 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross

The dispute between Philip and the Habsburg pretender to the Spanish throne

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Bravery Medal in Bronze, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac one the award(Tapferkeitsmedaille 1915 Bronze). Instituted 20 February 1915 by Duke Ernst II. (1915 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Cross Patte defaced by a central crowned Saxon coat of arms, with the three and nine oclock arms bearing a date of 1914, the reverse bearing the raised monogram of Duke Ernst II, unmarked, measuring 31. 17 mm in diameter, weighing 15. 5 grams,