Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class Cross With Iii Class War Decoration, By Rudolph Souval, C.1915 Newly Listed arms in bright green glass

arms in bright green glass and a hand-painted ceramic medallion in the centre

I Class: in bronze gilt with green and black enamels

Although Frick was nominally Himmler's superior

He was invalided and transferred to No

reverse presenting a perpendicular swastika

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class Cross With Iii Class War Decoration, By Rudolph Souval, C.1915 Newly Listed arms in bright green glass(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on 22 October 1849. II Period. (1914 1918 Issue). A silver cross patte with white enamelled arms edged in red enamel, a gilded laurel wreath between the arms of the cross, the obverse centre features a white enamelled medallion edged in red, with the word VERDIENST (MERIT broken into VER and DIENST to fit the centre, the reverse is plain in white enamel, the link ring is stamped with two hallmarks: a Dianas head with