Austria, Empire, Republic. Two First Class Military Long Service Decorations consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The inside is lined in

The inside is lined in brownish-green nylon

A War Merit Cross 1st Class by Klein & Quenzer - In silvered tombac

highlight on the rim exposing "EDMUND"

and later influenced the development and adoption of Führerprinzip by Adolf Hitler

measuring 60 mm (w) x 105 mm (l) x 18 mm (h)

Austria, Empire, Republic. Two First Class Military Long Service Decorations consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The inside is lined in(Militrverdienstzeichen fr Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften). Instituted in 1849. 1. Empire: Military Long Service Decoration, I Class to NCOs and Men for Twenty Years' Service, Type V (1913 1918) (two piece construction, silvered bronze insignia inscribed "XX" in Roman numerals (20) within a wreath, the insignia mounted to a bronze gilt cross base, measuring 36. 5 mm (w) x 39. 5 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension, original triangular ribbon