Saxe-Weimar, Duchy. A 9-Year Long Service Award, C.1915 Auction An Austrian Order of Leopold

An Austrian Order of Leopold with War Decoration

including the example offered

1944 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

the obverse and reverse maker marked “G

dated to the Hauptquartier des Generalstabes des Heeres (Headquarters of the General Staff of the Army) on April 20

Saxe-Weimar, Duchy. A 9-Year Long Service Award, C.1915 Auction An Austrian Order of Leopold(Dienstauszeichnung fr 9 Jahre). Instituted 20 December 1913 by Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst. (1913 1918 issue). Constructed of neusilber, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a monogram of Wilhelm Ernst circumscribed by an inscription of TREUE DIENSTE BEI DER FAHNE, the reverse with a number 9 in Roman numerals, unmarked, measuring 29. 96 mm in diameter, weighing 13. 8 grams (inclusive of ribbon), in extremely fine