Austria, Empire. A Lot of Three Medals, Awards, & Decorations, c. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac silver screwback

silver screwback

faded to a slight sepia-toned look

with period field made catch

underneath which the remnants of an “EREL” maker’s mark are visible

Austria, Empire. A Lot of Three Medals, Awards, & Decorations, c. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac silver screwbackA lot of three Imperial Austrian medals, awards, and decorations, consisting of: 1. A Military Merit Medal Signum Laudis. (Militrverdienstmedaille Signum Laudis). Instituted March 12th, 1890, Small Silver Medal Karl I type. A circular silver medal, the obverse depicting the rightward facing profile of Karl I, circumscribed by his name and title in Latin, the reverse inscribed Signum Laudis centrally within a laurel and oak wreath, suspended from an