Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 Auction born in 1912 in Küblingen

born in 1912 in Küblingen

Includes a German Social Welfare Honour Cross 2nd Class

Golden-yellow machine embroidery on a dark blue Kriegsmarine cotton blended fabric

11 months on the paper

showing only some light contact marks and mild patina

Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 Auction born in 1912 in KüblingenAn example of an 1848 issue silver Commemorative Medal for the Defense of Tirol (Silberne Tiroler Erinnerungsmedaille); a round silver medal; the obverse depicting the leftward facing bust of a young Kaiser Franz Josef, circumscribed by his name and title; the reverse inscribed Dem Tiroler Landes Verteidiger 1848 (The Tirol Defenders), as well as Mit Gott fr Kaiser und Vaterland (With God for Kaiser and the Fatherland); marked K. Lange on the obverse;