Austria, Imperial. A Franz Joseph I Patriotic Navy Badge certificate_of_authenticity True Service in the Volunteer

True Service in the Volunteer Fire Department

with both prongs on the reverse perfectly intact

The Militia List shows him as retired on May 11

with a slender banjo style pinback

Austria, Imperial. A Franz Joseph I Patriotic Navy Badge certificate_of_authenticity True Service in the VolunteerA diamond shaped badge constructed of gilded metal with white enamel, the obverse centre bears the left facing portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I with the inscription VIRIBUS UNITIS (WITH UNITED FORCES) to the left, circumscribed with UNSER LAND GOTT ERHALTE GOTT BESCHTZE UNSERN KAISER (GOD PRESERVE GOD PROTECT OUR EMPEROR OUT COUNTRY), in gilt letters on white enamel, the reverse is plain and bears a horizontal pinback, measuring 45. 32 mm, very fine.