Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class Cross visually-hidden An Early Saxon Civil Merit

An Early Saxon Civil Merit Order

5 Canadian Repatriation Depot

1880 in Llepney (London)

maker mark “W 9” on reverse

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class Cross visually-hidden An Early Saxon Civil Merit(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 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 a white