Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1914 Archive (Schlageter Schild)

(Schlageter Schild)

suspended from a silver and blue enameled bar

demonstrating the remnants of an adhesive to the reverse

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Count Zeppelin and Zeppelin in Campaign Action Commemorative Medal 1914 (in bronze

Bauer also signed it in blue ink

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1914 Archive (Schlageter Schild)(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 a central white enamelled