Austria, Imperial. A Pair Of Military Merit Medals By Heinrich Kautsch Auction exhibiting wear from storage

exhibiting wear from storage

Above the insignia

with machine embroidered silver aluminum tress sewn to the straps in a U-shape

measuring 44 mm (w) x 55 mm (h)

maker marked "MK" on marked "925" silver on the reverse

Austria, Imperial. A Pair Of Military Merit Medals By Heinrich Kautsch Auction exhibiting wear from storage(Militrverdienstmedaillen). A pair of Military Merit Medals, including a Bronze Grade award, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original tri fold ribbon with sword clasp, the obverse with a raised rightward facing profile of Emperor Charles I, circumscribed by name and title in Latin, the reverse with a central inscription of SIGNUM LAUDIS (SIGN OF PRAISE), within a laurel and oak leaf wreath, topped by the imperial crowns