Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knight’s Of Malta, Silver Merit Medal Hold (Weihnachten Medaille)

(Weihnachten Medaille)

and had the honor of being the eighth former student of the school to be decorated with the Ritterkreuz

the reverse with an oak leaf wreath

There is some minor soiling of the exterior

allowing their four-foot draft Higgins boats room to spare

Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knight’s Of Malta, Silver Merit Medal Hold (Weihnachten Medaille)(Souverner Malteseorden Silberne Verdienstmedaille). In silver, obverse depicting a Maltese cross within a wreath of laurel leaves, reverse inscribed "MIL. ORDO EQVITUM MELITENSIVM BENE MERENTI" within a wreath of laurel leaves, a Maltese Cross within a circular frame above, measuring 37 mm (w) x 50. 7 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally pierced ball suspension, edge nicks, bruised, contact marks, without ribbon, very fine.