Austria, Imperial. An Order of Franz Joseph, Knight’s Cross, c.1910 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the hoist edge featuring a

the hoist edge featuring a hollow channel for the insertion of a rope

The boards are topped by a single band of silver aluminum wire piping interwoven with dual bands of gold bullion wire piping

Saint in Green Robes

around a central blackened magnetic metal eagle’s head

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Austria, Imperial. An Order of Franz Joseph, Knight’s Cross, c.1910 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the hoist edge featuring a(sterreichisch kaiserlicher Franz Joseph Orden, Ritterkreuz). Instituted by Emperor Franz Joseph I on 2 December 1849. A bronze gilt and enamel cross patte with red enameled arms edged in gilt, overlaid on a finely detailed gilt double headed Imperial Austrian eagle with open wings, each head crowned. Obverse central medallion in white enamel with raised, gilded, intertwined monogram FJ for Franz Joseph. Reverse medallion in white enamel bearing the