Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross Breast Star of Merit, c. 1950, by E. Gardino Cravanzola Republic of Of French manufacture and style

Of French manufacture and style

a rare example in shortened and very fine condition

5 mm (h) American Volunteer Group (AVG) pilot cap badge in bronze affixed via a screwback

Instituted by Alfonso XIII in 1902

She was used from April 1940 onward to lay mines in the North Sea

Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross Breast Star of Merit, c. 1950, by E. Gardino Cravanzola Republic of Of French manufacture and style(Souverner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom heiligen Johannes von Jerusalem von Rhodos und von Malta). Instituted circa 1099 (c. 1950 issue). Constructed of silver, silver gilt, and red and white enamels, consisting of a eight pointed star with five quills between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central cross with white enameled arms bearing a central red enameled medallion with a white enameled Maltese Cross, surrounded by a white ring of