Saxony, Kingdom. An Albert Order, Civil Division, Albert’s Cross Auction Footnote: Arthur B

Footnote: Arthur B

developing submarine warfare tactics

The ship had been transferred from Atlantic service to the Cape of Good Hope Station in South Africa in October 1914

Stitched onto the upper right flap is an insignia consisting of a dark blue-grey wool base bearing a central hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire Bundeswehr-style German national eagle

Saxony, Kingdom. An Albert Order, Civil Division, Albert’s Cross Auction Footnote: Arthur B(Albrechtsorden Albrechtkreuz). Instituted 31 December 1850 by King Friedrich August II. (1876 1918 issue). Constructed of a silvered metal alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with ribbed arms, the obverse bearing a central rightward facing profile of Duke Albert III, circumscribed by an inscription of ALBERT ANIMOSUS (ALBERT THE BOLD) with arabesques, the reverse bearing a central Saxon coat of