Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knights Of Malta, Ladies Silver Merit Cross, C.1910 Hold original ribbons with brooch pinback)

original ribbons with brooch pinback)

Biddle (366892) was promoted to the rank of Major

the second section with a slightly longer looped cord with a braided aluminum wire adjustment knot

each with a postmarked one cent U

5 mm (w) x 56 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension

Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knights Of Malta, Ladies Silver Merit Cross, C.1910 Hold original ribbons with brooch pinback)(Souverner Malteseorden Silbernes Verdienstkreuz). A silvered bronze Maltese Cross in white enamel, the centre medallion presents a white enameled Maltese Cross over a red enamel field, circumscribed by a ring of white enamel, inscribed MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (Military Order of Merit), the reverse with a red enameled medallion dated 1916, surrounded by a ring of white enamel depicting an open ended wreath, unmarked, measures 39. 53 mm