Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Vincent Mayer, in Case, c.1914 Newly Listed A HJ (Hitlerjugend/Hitler Youth) Proficiency

A HJ (Hitlerjugend/Hitler Youth) Proficiency badge

a Handwritten Note (dated March 17

maker marked LORIOLI MILANO

the exterior bearing an inscription of “VERWUNDETENABZEICHN SCHWARZ” (“WOUND BADGE IN BLACK”) and a maker’s mark of “HEINRICH WANDER

on the left is the letter L for Leopold and on the right the Roman numeral XV (15)

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Vincent Mayer, in Case, c.1914 Newly Listed A HJ (Hitlerjugend/Hitler Youth) Proficiency(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II. (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse presents white enamel arms with