Austria, Empire. Two First War Period Medal Bars Newly Listed (Heer Schützenschnur Abzeichen)

(Heer Schützenschnur Abzeichen)

and Knight 4th Class

constructed of a card stock binding with a canvas exterior and held together by four magnetic metal eyelets through which is looped a brown threaded drawstring

Bronze Star and Purple Heart

the reverse is marked “GES GESCH”” and bears a vertical pinback

Austria, Empire. Two First War Period Medal Bars Newly Listed (Heer Schützenschnur Abzeichen)1. As originally mounted on period ribbons, an eight piece bar which includes: A Military Merit Medal Signum Laudis, silver; A Military Merit Medal Signum Laudis, Franz Joseph I, Military Division, bronze gilt; A Karl Troop Cross, war material; A Wound Medal, war material; A Commemorative Medal for the Liberation of Upper Hungary, 1938, bronze; Commemorative Medal for the Liberation of Transylvania 1940, zinc; Commemorative Medal for the Liberation of