Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 Auction Includes a German Social Welfare

Includes a German Social Welfare Honour Cross 2nd Class

born in 1912 in Küblingen

showing only some light contact marks and mild patina

advancing to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant

11 months on the paper

Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 Auction Includes a German Social WelfareAn example of an 1848 issue silver Commemorative Medal for the Defense of Tirol (Silberne Tiroler Erinnerungsmedaille); a round silver medal; the obverse depicting the leftward facing bust of a young Kaiser Franz Josef, circumscribed by his name and title; the reverse inscribed Dem Tiroler Landes Verteidiger 1848 (The Tirol Defenders), as well as Mit Gott fr Kaiser und Vaterland (With God for Kaiser and the Fatherland); marked K. Lange on the obverse;