Description
21 June 1813
measures 13
A Miniature Royal Victorian Order
two soldiers to his right in the trenches with a machine gun and the inscription "PRISE DE VIMY" (Capture of Vimy Ridge) above
On January 2nd
Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels certificate_of_authenticity 21 June 1813(Karl Truppenkreuz). Instituted on 13 December 1916. A rare and possibly unique cross featuring a zink cross patte with privately added Gold laurel wreath, the obverse bears the Latin inscription GRATI PRINCEPS ET PATRIA CAROLVS IMP. ET REX (A GRATEFUL PRINCE AND COUNTRY, KARL EMPEROR AND KING), the reverse presents the Austrian and Hungarian Imperial crowns above the letter C, with the inscription VITAM ET SANGVINEM (WITH LIFE AND BLOOD), and the