Saxony-Ernestine. A Three Piece Medal Bar With A House Order Knight’s Cross Newly Listed they often used Osage Orange

they often used Osage Orange for it's resistance to decay

Foonote: John Hamm was born in Cornwall

all of its original silvering intact with only minor contact marks to the black enamels

The letter is signed with a stamp carrying the Feldpost (field mail) number 00512

Saxony-Ernestine. A Three Piece Medal Bar With A House Order Knight’s Cross Newly Listed they often used Osage OrangeA first war period medal bar with three medals, awards, and decorations, consisting of 1) An Iron Cross 1914 Second Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 2. Klasse); a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension; the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm; the reverse with a