Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1915 Auction Archive First Class - Breast star

First Class - Breast star

silver gilt with reddish-brown enamels

and in the nearby resort town of Whistler

His exploits in South Africa included his horse being killed from under him at Johannesburg on May 27

repainting of replacement of the Prussian cockade

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1915 Auction Archive First Class - Breast star(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 with white enamelled arms and