Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, c.1870 Archive measuring 51 mm (w) x

measuring 51 mm (w) x 61

published by Blandford Press of Poole

lid illustrating the bell with eagle over five conjoined rings insignia of the Berlin Summer Games

itself surrounded by four rows of silvered twisted wire

measuring 150 mm x 40 mm

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, c.1870 Archive measuring 51 mm (w) x(Militrverdienstkreuz III. Klasse). (1849 1914 issue). Civil Division. Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with red and white enameled arms, the obverse with a central white enameled medallion bearing a gilt inscription of VERDIENST (MERIT) within a ring of red enamel, the reverse with white enameled arms and centre, measuring 30. 9 mm (w) x 34. 3 mm (h), weighs 11. 57 grams including ribbon, unmarked, on loop for