Austria, Imperial. A Sovereign Military Order Of Malta, Order Pro Merito Melitensi, Grand Cross Badge, C.1920 Hold accompanied by a metal cockade

accompanied by a metal cockade

Jörg Nimmergut argues that the chain only exists in sketches of the Royal Coat of Arms and denies Maximilian Gritzner’s claim in Handbuch der Ritter- und Verdienstorden aller Kulturstaaten der Welt that recipients wore the chain on solemn occasions

the reverse marked “FIRMIN & WESTALL

2) A Commemorative Austrian Anschluss medal

Footnote: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Austria, Imperial. A Sovereign Military Order Of Malta, Order Pro Merito Melitensi, Grand Cross Badge, C.1920 Hold accompanied by a metal cockadeInstituted 1920. A gilded silvered Maltese Cross in white enamel, the centre medallion presents a white enamelled Maltese Cross over a red enamel central field, circumscribed by a ring of white enamel, inscribed MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (Military Order of Merit), the reverse with a red enameled medallion with a white enamelled Maltese cross, surrounded by a ring of white enamel, measures 42. 08 mm (w) x 64. 24 mm (h inclusive of Imperial