Austria, Empire. A Miniature Portrait Of An Officer, C.1820 Auction Archive A 1930 Leipzig Reichs-Jugendtag badge

A 1930 Leipzig Reichs-Jugendtag badge

For over a century after the European landing at Cape Town in the seventeenth century

the hoist edge reinforced with a cotton twill reinforcement featuring a hollow channel and bearing an additional cord

original ribbon suspended from a pinback hanger inscribed "KRANZ-AUSZEICHNUNG")

Austria, Empire. A Miniature Portrait Of An Officer, C.1820 Auction Archive A 1930 Leipzig Reichs-Jugendtag badgeA finely detailed, hand painted miniature watercolour portrait depicting a decorated Austrian Officer wearing the breast badges of two orders, in addition to a sheathed sword placed below his left arm. It is set within an oval gilded brass border, retaining an intact glass face, and in turn inset within a wooden frame featuring painted and lacquered tiles. The reverse features a removable backer secured in place with malleable bronze clips, while the