Saxony, Kingdom. An Albert Order, Officer’s Cross With Case, By G.a. Scharffenberg, C.1910 Newly Listed The 4 Year Long Service

The 4 Year Long Service in the SS-VT Award certificate is named to SS-Oberscharführer Willi Wilkens in SS-Germania

fortunately largely protected by his helmet

it is considered a predecessor of the Legion of Honour

maker marked “J

Third Reich Period Mirror - In very fine condition

Saxony, Kingdom. An Albert Order, Officer’s Cross With Case, By G.a. Scharffenberg, C.1910 Newly Listed The 4 Year Long Service(Albrechtsorden, Offizierskreuz mit Etui). Instituted 31 December 1850 by King Friedrich August II. (1890 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Latin Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms joined through the quadrants by an exquisite green enameled oak leaf wreath, bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a gilded rightward facing profile of Duke Albert III, within a ring of blue