Swords: Saxe Weimar Silver 01

See the Gold swords scan, also for Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach's Order of the White Falcon.

Silver swords indicate either a Knight 2nd Class or a Silver Merit Cross. These were awarded to Lieutenants and Captains, or NCOs respectively. Given the numbers, any and all White Falcons with swords are rare, but the Merit Crosses particularly so. This swords device is real silver.

For some idea of how "common" the most common class of the Order was-- this Knight 2nd ("SWF3bX"), there were only about 1,200+ for World War One.

Many an Imperial rarity can still be found by careful attention to such miniscule trivia as ...


the devices on a ribbon bar.

Courtesy of Deruelle.