Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Third Class With Small Decoration, C.1917 Archive maker marked "AMICO" on their

maker marked "AMICO" on their reverses

exhibiting light soiling throughout

He is called one of the best Master Sergeants of the Battalion

reverse inscribed "Handabzug-Kunstverlag Voigt Elmshorn / (Veröffentlichung nur mit Genehmigung)" (Voigt Elmshorn Publishing House / Publication with Permission only) at the upper left and "Celle / Bomann-Museum / Ehrenhalle der Hannoverschen Armee" (Bomann Museum at Celle / Remembrance Hall of the Hanoverian Army) at the lower right

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Third Class With Small Decoration, C.1917 Archive maker marked "AMICO" on their(Militrverdienstkreuz III. Klasse und Kleiner Dekoration). Issued 1914 1918. A silver cross pattee with red and white enamels; the obverse with a central white enameled medallion inscribed VERDIENST (German Merit); the reverse all in white enamels; on loop for suspension from its period original tri fold ribbon, with a miniature decoration attached to the ribbon for the second class cross with war decoration; marked with an Austrian silver mark for