Description
maker marked "ZUKOV PRAHA XI" on the screwback)
It is unknown why those men had to redeem themselves
prime ministers and chancellors)
the pommel remaining crisp
Constructed of dark green (Flaschengrün) wool
Germany, Imperial. A First War Austro-German Alliance Commemorative Medal Newly Listed maker marked "ZUKOV PRAHA XI"(Zweibund Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with leftward facing profiles of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Franz Joseph I, flanked by dates of 1914 1916 and an inscription of EINIG UND TREU (UNITED AND LOYAL), the reverse with an inscription of ERINNERUNG AN DIE SIEGREICHEN KMPFE IM OST U. WEST 1914 (MEMENTO OF THE VICTORIOUS STRUGGLE IN EAST AND WEST 1914), within a