Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross. Second Class With Swords And War Decoration, By V. Mayer Auction Archive Special Air Service Cap Badge

Special Air Service Cap Badge (in bronze

Lüdenscheid” on the tab

During the war there were 100 deaths

the reverse plain with a vertical broad pinback

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross. Second Class With Swords And War Decoration, By V. Mayer Auction Archive Special Air Service Cap Badge(Militrverdienstkreuz, II. Klasse, mit Schwertern, und Kriegsdekoration). A silver cross pattee with red and white enameled arms, with a green enameled laurel wreath and short silver swords between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central white enameled medallion inscribed VERDIENST (German Merit); the reverse fully enameled in white; on a double loop for suspension marked VM and with a Dianas head silver mark, as well a Vienna silver Assay