A Prototype Knight’s Cross Design For A Luftwaffe Ceremony Sevres-Manufactured Plate Hold WWI Austrian Golden Bravery Medal

WWI Austrian Golden Bravery Medal - Emperor Karl - officially awarded medal with “Stielhenkelose” type suspension

on top of which is set a fairly large genuine old cut diamond (also another old cut diamond on reverse)

exhibiting the usual in and out runner marks and scattered surface wear

as the White Star wrongly assumed that any larger liner would take several hours to sink and radio would obtain help quickly within well used shipping lanes and life boats would only be required to effect the transfer of passengers and crew

veterans of Napoleonic campaigns

A Prototype Knight’s Cross Design For A Luftwaffe Ceremony Sevres-Manufactured Plate Hold WWI Austrian Golden Bravery MedalThis is an artists watercolour rendition of a Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. It as intended to be used on porcelain produced at the well regarded porcelain city of Sevres, in France, for a Luftwaffe ceremony. The painting is well executed, depicting the aforenoted Knights Cross, with ribbon, encircled by a wreath with a colour code gold matt and gold blank added on the right edge of the cardstock. On the reverse