Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, c.1914 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with a central threaded lug

with a central threaded lug retaining an original nut

engraver marked with the forename "PAUL"

the "3" and "4" were transposed accordingly and re-impressed over top of the existing "34" as "43"

with a red wool backer

and circumscribed “1941” as well as “Cruciada Importava Comunismului” (Crusade against Communism)

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, c.1914 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with a central threaded lug(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and a