Description
the interior is fleece-lined
comprising a black lacquer exterior with removable lid featuring gilt Paulownia flowers and an adhered image of the decoration on the exterior and Japanese characters on the interior
illustrating a rope and inscribed "1907" above
some of the photos peeling away from the pages and exposing handwritten notes in ink on their reverses
Saxe-Ernestine, Duchies. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, II Class Knight’s Cross with Swords Auction the interior is fleece-lined(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1890 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials and joined through the quadrants by lions passant, the centrepiece pierced