Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Type I, in Case, c.1880 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic exhibiting tape over the rips

exhibiting tape over the rips and tears

SOLINGEN” for the firm of Richard Abraham Herder

Footnote: This is one of about eighty varieties of Ersatz Bayonets manufactured during the First World War

due to political reasons (Romania was still under Ottoman suzerainty)

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, Type I, in Case, c.1880 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic exhibiting tape over the rips(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