Slovakia. A Red Cross Honour Badge For Five Years' Exemplary Service Auction Footnote: The Military Merit Medal

Footnote: The Military Merit Medal was a military decoration of the Empire of Austria-Hungary

measuring 36 mm in diameter

A textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 Second Class with excellent and very attractive white oxidized silver effect along the ringed portion of the cross

with majority of gilt wreath intact with loss of silvering

a pair of his collar tabs and shoulder boards

Slovakia. A Red Cross Honour Badge For Five Years' Exemplary Service Auction Footnote: The Military Merit MedalTwo piece construction, in bronze gilt with red, white and blue enamels, obverse illustrating an eagle standing upon a Red Cross insignia, the eagle backed by a red ring, reverse inscribed "SLOVENSKY CERVENY KRIZ PODESTA TROCHEJ VZORNEJ SLUZBE" on the reverse of the ring and number impressed "35" on the reverse of the eagle, measuring 33. 5 mm in diameter, horizontal pinback, chipping evident in the red enamels on the Red Cross insignia and on the