Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class Cross With Iii Class War Decoration, By Rudolph Souval, C.1915 Auction Archive 15 mm (w) x 25

15 mm (w) x 25

destroying one British warship and seven merchant ships

with a Fliegersturm insignia on the tab

While incapacitated

nips in the paint on the base

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class Cross With Iii Class War Decoration, By Rudolph Souval, C.1915 Auction Archive 15 mm (w) x 25(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on 22 October 1849. II Period. (1914 1918 Issue). A silver cross patte with white enamelled arms edged in red enamel, a gilded laurel wreath between the arms of the cross, the obverse centre features a white enamelled medallion edged in red, with the word VERDIENST (MERIT broken into VER and DIENST to fit the centre, the reverse is plain in white enamel, the link ring is stamped with two hallmarks: a Dianas head with