field grey wool underside
suspended from a silver and blue enameled bar
demonstrating the remnants of an adhesive to the reverse
Bauer also signed it in blue ink
The center grand cross has a iron magnetic/core
Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1914 Archive field grey wool underside(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II. (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with a central white enamelled