in gilded silver (14x22mm)
as well as fatigue to the leather elements
Constructed of a black wool base with buckram core and woven silver wire trim
rather than the initial hypothesis of a mine
an Air Gunner Badge with Lightning Bolts award document (148x210mm
Austria, Imperial. A Leopold Order, Grand Cross Star, by C.F. Rothe, c.1900 Republic of in gilded silver (14x22mm)(sterreichisch kaiserlicher Leopold Orden). Instituted on 8 January 1808. A silver Leopold Cross with finely enameled red arms bordered in white enamel, circumscribed by the inscription INTEGRITATE ET MERITO (INTEGRITY AND MERIT) over a ring of white enamel, upon a hand etched eight armed silver star, reverse with central pin assembly with marked C. F. Rothe Wien, and C. F., along with Austrian Imperial silver hallmarks, measuring 88. 58 mm (w) x 87.