Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross. Second Class With Swords And War Decoration, By V. Mayer Auction Archive on a steel blue cotton-wool

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Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross. Second Class With Swords And War Decoration, By V. Mayer Auction Archive on a steel blue cotton-wool(Militrverdienstkreuz, II. Klasse, mit Schwertern, und Kriegsdekoration). A silver cross pattee with red and white enameled arms, with a green enameled laurel wreath and short silver swords between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central white enameled medallion inscribed VERDIENST (German Merit); the reverse fully enameled in white; on a double loop for suspension marked VM and with a Dianas head silver mark, as well a Vienna silver Assay