Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Iron Crown, I Class Star, C.1855 Newly Listed 43rd Battn

43rd Battn

77 mm (w) x 9

where he was to serve for almost one year

Constructed of a multi-coloured cotton blend displaying the tri-colours of the Italian flag

the center obverse presenting a “FJ” on a white enamel field within a Gold border

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Iron Crown, I Class Star, C.1855 Newly Listed 43rd Battn(Orden der Eisernen Krone). Instituted in 1805. Re established in 1815. Type II (1838 1860). Displaying an early design in a reduced size, a very scarce eight pointed silver star with smooth rays and pebbled frame, obverse featuring a centrepiece in Gold presenting a superposed central Iron Crown with details of multi coloured enamels also in Gold, on a pebbled Gold background surrounded by an enameled blue broad ring inscribed AVITA ET AUCTA (Inherit