Austria, Empire. A Fine Red Cross Medal Bar with Eight Awards visually-hidden brass open-ended chape

brass open-ended chape

MAI 1936 in the top left

3 mm (w) x 38 mm (h)

Duke of Burgundy

Austria, Empire. A Fine Red Cross Medal Bar with Eight Awards visually-hidden brass open-ended chape1. An Iron Cross 1914 Second Class. (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, mounted on the ribbon bar with its period original combatant's ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the