Automatic translation from Danish.

Gilt metal chatelain with medallion with Viscount Eggert Knuth's (1882-1920) crowned monogram, decorated with black onyx. L. 11.5 cm. Shows traces of use.

Eggert Christopher Viscount Knuth (27 February 1882 at Knuthenborg – 19 March 1920 in Algiers) was a Danish landowner.
He was the son of chamberlain, Viscount Adam Wilhelm Knuth and wife Margrethe f. Baroness Rosenørn-Lehn. In 1888 he took over the county of Knuthenborg and the substitution for the ancestral house of Lerchenfeldt. He was patron of Lolland-Falster's Provincial Museum and chairman of Landbostandens Sparekasse in Maribo. (Source: Wikipedia)