Austria, Imperial. A Lot of Orders, Medals & Decorations Province of China and silver gilt with red

and silver gilt with red and white enamels and incorporating a hammer and sickle in Gold in the centrepiece

It has experienced light rusting on the inner shell

the exterior of the lid embossed with the name of the decoration in gilt

constructed of silvered magnetic metal with multi-coloured enamels

Footnote: Private Alexander Bryson was born in 1891 in Bothwell

Austria, Imperial. A Lot of Orders, Medals & Decorations Province of China and silver gilt with red1. 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