Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Type I, in Case, c.1880 Auction A Gold Grade Driver's Proficiency

A Gold Grade Driver's Proficiency Badge - Gold grade

Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a black rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

composed of an army of 120

minute contact on obverse

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Type I, in Case, c.1880 Auction A Gold Grade Driver's Proficiency(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. First Period (1849 1914). Civil Division. An early Military Merit Cross, in silver and enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and center, marked on the integral suspension ring with an FR denoting Rothe manufacture, a Diana head denoting