Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Leopold, Grand Cross With War Decoration (Rothe Copy) Archive First Lieutenant Ralph Welcome Baker

First Lieutenant Ralph Welcome Baker

A very well-preserved HJ member’s knife measuring 255 mm in length when inserted into the scabbard

on ring and suspended from a triangular

marked N on the bottom arm the arms

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Leopold, Grand Cross With War Decoration (Rothe Copy) Archive First Lieutenant Ralph Welcome Baker(sterreichisch kaiserlicher Leopold Orden). Instituted on 8 January 1808 by Franz I of Austria. Post 1945 Manufacture by 1945. Constructed of silver, a Grand Cross sash badge consisting of a four armed cross with red and white enameled arms, obverse centre presenting raised initials F I A (For Franciscus Imperator Austriae) in gilt lettering, circumscribed an enameled white border inscribed by INTEGRITATI ET MERITO (For Integrity And Merit), reverse