Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Scheid, in Case, c.1915 Hold intermediate scuffing and creasing

intermediate scuffing and creasing

marked on reverse “L F 1931”

Order of Military Merit with Silver Sword

He died on March 31

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Scheid, in Case, c.1915 Hold intermediate scuffing and creasing(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