Austria, Imperial. Two Austrian Merit Crosses certificate_of_authenticity for Meritorious Service

for Meritorious Service

missing one stone

silver gilt with white enamels

dark patinas on the BWMs

Austria, Imperial. Two Austrian Merit Crosses certificate_of_authenticity for Meritorious ServiceA grouping of two Austrian Imperial Merit Crosses, consisting of 1) (Verdienstkreuz IV. Klasse). Instituted 1849 by Franz Joseph I. (1914 1918 Issue). Constructed of a hollow bronze gilt Ruppert Cross with rounded edges, with red enameled arms on the obverse and reverse, the obverse with a central white enameled medallion, inscribed FJ (Franz Josef) in capital gilt lettering, surrounded by a gilt ring, and an ornately decorated white ring of enamels