United States. A Cased Purple Heart Medal with Additional Wound Star Auction 33 mm (w) x 51

33 mm (w) x 51

if there was to be no first contingent medal

A few institutions and factories

1915: the Mentioned in Despatches on page 150

backed by a wreath bearing the Victorian crown in bronze gilt

United States. A Cased Purple Heart Medal with Additional Wound Star Auction 33 mm (w) x 51(Instituted August 7th 1782 by George Washington). Of two piece construction in the shape of a heart in bronze gilt and with purple, red, white, and green enamels, the obverse with a gilded leftward facing bust of George Washington affixed onto purple coloured and heart shaped enamels with the Coat of Arms of George Washington, consisting of a white enameled shield with two horizontally positioned red enameled bars and three horizontally positioned