Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Iron Crown, I Class Star, C.1855 Newly Listed Instituted on 2 December 1849

Instituted on 2 December 1849 by Emperor Franz Joseph I

The last two years he resided in Duncan

the obverse with a central raised shovel head bearing a mobile swastika

His wife was born on June 22

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Iron Crown, I Class Star, C.1855 Newly Listed Instituted on 2 December 1849(Orden der Eisernen Krone). Instituted in 1805. Re established in 1815. Type II (1838 1860). Displaying an early design in a reduced size, a very scarce eight pointed silver star with smooth rays and pebbled frame, obverse featuring a centrepiece in Gold presenting a superposed central Iron Crown with details of multi coloured enamels also in Gold, on a pebbled Gold background surrounded by an enameled blue broad ring inscribed AVITA ET AUCTA (Inherit