Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Third Class, German Manufacture, c.1900 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Rhodes was killed

Rhodes was killed

It is decorated with fine quality sew-on type russian-style shoulder boards constructed of multiple rows of twisted and U-shaped silver aluminum wire

with each end completing in attachment pins

A first war Austrian medal ribbon bar with three awards

one at the top of the grip

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Third Class, German Manufacture, c.1900 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Rhodes was killed(Militrverdienstkreuz III. Klasse). (1865 1914 issue). In silver Maltese Cross with white and red enamels, obverse with a central white enameled medallion bearing a gilt inscription of VERDIENST (MERIT) within a ring of red enamel, reverse with white enameled arms and centre, 30. 6 mm (w) x 33. 7mm (h), with uncommon silver import mark on integral ring referencing import from Neustadt, Germany (1867 1922), with enamel loss to centre obverse, period