Austria, Imperial. A Franz Joseph I Patriotic Navy Badge Auction at the age of 24

at the age of 24 and is buried in Beaurevoir British Cemetery

W-SS Stettin (Medical Orderly Drill and Reserve Battalion of the Waffen-SS in Stettin

but textbook example of “Ferdinand Wiedmann” manufacture

measuring 219 mm (w) x 297 mm (h) and constructed of heavy paper

or 3 1/8 inches)

Austria, Imperial. A Franz Joseph I Patriotic Navy Badge Auction at the age of 24A diamond shaped badge constructed of gilded metal with white enamel, the obverse centre bears the left facing portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I with the inscription VIRIBUS UNITIS (WITH UNITED FORCES) to the left, circumscribed with UNSER LAND GOTT ERHALTE GOTT BESCHTZE UNSERN KAISER (GOD PRESERVE GOD PROTECT OUR EMPEROR OUT COUNTRY), in gilt letters on white enamel, the reverse is plain and bears a horizontal pinback, measuring 45. 32 mm, very fine.