Germany, Imperial. A Saxe-Ernestine Medal Bar for a First World War Combatant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac smooth finished brown leather tab

smooth finished brown leather tab stitched in place on the underside at the right end

Late on the afternoon of November 25th

5 mm (w) x 68

inscribed "DIGNISSIMO" at the upper left and "PRAEMIVM CONSTITVTVM / A

with some cracking along the hinge edge

Germany, Imperial. A Saxe-Ernestine Medal Bar for a First World War Combatant consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac smooth finished brown leather tab(Ordensschnalle). A superb medal bar for a First World War combatant featuring three decorations, including: 1. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown,