Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, Bronze Grade With Swords And Case, By Zimbler Newly Listed silvery-aluminium wire threads

silvery-aluminium wire threads

This is a broken-off ID tag belonging to one of the Soviet Prisoners of War of the Stalag 333 Beniaminow

measuring 47 mm (w) x 88 mm (h) inclusive of its Sampaguita open-ended wreath suspension with bar inscribed "FOR GALLANTRY"

maker marked Willibald Kluge & Co

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, Bronze Grade With Swords And Case, By Zimbler Newly Listed silvery-aluminium wire threads(Militr Verdienstmedaille in Bronze mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop from a crown suspension with its period original tri fold ribbon, the latter notably pinned with a sword clasp constructed of magnetic iron, the obverse of the medal bearing a raised and rightward facing profile of Emperor Franz Joseph, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing a central wreathed inscription of SIGNUM LAUDIS (SIGN OF PRAISE),