Austria, Imperial. An Order of Leopold, Knight’s Cross with Swords Hold The Northern Vise Tightens

The Northern Vise Tightens

IV Class in Silver

and flanked by the dates “15

a blackened cross pattée within a hatched border imposed

suspended from a hollow swivel crown as well as a pierced ball and swivel round loop from its period original triangular ribbon

Austria, Imperial. An Order of Leopold, Knight’s Cross with Swords Hold The Northern Vise Tightens(sterreichisch kaiserlicher Leopold Orden). Instituted 1808. Type III. (1861 1918). Civil Division. In bronze gilt, a beautiful red and white enamelled cross, the obverse medallion presenting the inscription FIA surrounded by a white ring inscribed INTEGRITATI ET MERITO, the reverse medallion features a white field inscribed OPES REGUM CORA SUBDITO RUM, surrounded by a gilt wreath, the badge is suspended from a large crown with an interior red