Austria, Empire. A First War Miniature Order of the Iron Crown Chain

Item #EU19554

$401

All period mounted as worn, including the following fine decorations:

1. Military Long Service Decoration, III Class for Six Years' Service (two-piece construction, in silver gilt, measuring 17 mm (w) x 19.5 mm (h)).

2. Hungary, Kingdom: First War Commemorative Medal 1914-1918 (in silver, measuring 16.2 mm in diameter).

3. First Republic: First War Commemorative Medal 1914-1918 (in bronze gilt, measuring 16.2 mm (w) x 23.5 mm (h) inclusive of its crossed swords suspension).

4. Commemorative Jubilee Medal 1898 "Sigvum Memoriae" (in bronze gilt, measuring 16.5 mm in diameter).

5. Honour Decoration of the Red Cross (three-piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, measuring 17 mm (w) x 20.5 mm (h)).

6. Merit Cross "1849" (two-piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, measuring 15.7 mm (w) x 18.5 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-pierced ball suspension).

7. Military Merit Medal "Signvm Laudis", Silver Grade, Franz Joseph I (two-piece construction, in silvered bronze with gilt swords, measuring 15.8 mm (w) x 23.8 mm (h)).

8. Order of the Iron Crown (multi-piece construction, in bronze gilt with red, blue, white and green enamels, measuring 15.7 mm (w) x 29.5 mm (h)).

All eight awards are mounted to a dual strand of fine-link chain in bronze gilt, with 36 mm long stickpins at either end. Intact enamels, extremely fine.