Austria, Imperial. A Lot of Orders, Medals & Decorations Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Order of Michael

Footnote: The Order of Michael the Brave is Romania’s highest military decoration

The plaque is heavily but naturally patinated

rightward-opening round wire catch

and left leg

Austria, Imperial. A Lot of Orders, Medals & Decorations Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Order of Michael1. A Military Merit Cross, I Class with Crown; (Goldenes Verdienstkreuz mit Krone). Instituted 16 February 1850. (1850 1918 issue). Military Division. In gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a cross with red enamelled arms, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion bearing a central gilt monogram of Franz Joseph I, circumscribed by an inscription of VIRIBUS UNITIS (UNITED FORCES), the reverse with a central white