Prussia, Kingdom. A Crown Order In Gold, Iii Class With Swords, Miniature, C.1914 Auction Gold Medal of the French

Gold Medal of the French Society for the Development of Research and Inventive Activity 1970 (bronze gilt

measuring 200 mm (l) x 65 mm (h)

which to best of our knowledge had never been offered for sale on the open market

the obverse with the coat of arms of Garmisch Partenkirchen in the talons of a German national eagle

When the medal is awarded by the Army and Air Force for acts of valor in combat

Prussia, Kingdom. A Crown Order In Gold, Iii Class With Swords, Miniature, C.1914 Auction Gold Medal of the French(Knigliche Kronen Orden III. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted on 18 October 1861. (1867 1918 issue). In Gold consisting of a Cross Patte with white enameled arms, the obverse with a central gilt medallion bearing a convex Prussian royal crown, surrounded by a blue enameled ring with gilt inscription of GOTT MIT UNS (GOD IS WITH US) and arabesques, reverse with an analogous medallion depicting a convex monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm I, surrounded by a