Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knight’s Of Malta, Bronze Merit Medal, With Wd For Ladies Auction Archive and Bronze Grade (bronze

and Bronze Grade (bronze

in silver bronzed zinc

Footnote: Bernard Patrick Duplassie was born on August 8

Some pages are stamped “Ungültig”

three and a half weeks shy of his thirtieth birthday

Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knight’s Of Malta, Bronze Merit Medal, With Wd For Ladies Auction Archive and Bronze Grade (bronze(Souverner Malteseorden Bronzene Verdienstmedaille). An oval bronze medal; the obverse with a Maltese cross in the centre of the medal, surrounded by a laurel wreath with berries; the reverse inscribed Equitum Melitensium (Latin Loosely translated, Guardian of the Maltese Order), surrounded by a laurel wreath with berries; on a loop for suspension from its period original ladies bowtie ribbon with a war decoration; measuring 36. 42 mm (w) x 49. 10 mm