As Wild Card notes it is the House Order of the Grand Duchy or Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and is awarded in five classes. Visit Dave Danner's excellent site for more information on the order and those of the other German States. http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/saxeweimar.htm
Rich, check with Gailen David. He has a study of those inscription templates that has spanned some twelve years and has some interesting findings that the bad guys would love to know about.
Joe, I think the word you might be looking for is 'crotchety.' No cavalryman worth his oats would have a face that looked anything other than it was made of old saddle leather.
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