Austria, Empire. An Honour Medal for 25 Years of Home Guard Meritorious Service, c. 1910 United Republic of golden ink

golden ink

with a central destroyer cutting through waves

A rare and well-preserved folio belonging to a member of Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach’s personal staff

The reverse of the scabbard is in brass

dated "December 3rd 1860"

Austria, Empire. An Honour Medal for 25 Years of Home Guard Meritorious Service, c. 1910 United Republic of golden ink(Ehrenzeichen fr die 25 Jhrige verdienstliche Mitgliedschaft bei einer landsturmpflichtigen Krperschaft). Instituted November 26th, 1908. A circular gilded silver medal, the obverse depicting the Crowned Royal Cypher of Franz Joseph I, circumscribed Constantiae et Patriae Amori in capitalized Latin, the reverse bearing a double headed Austrian Eagle with laurels at the base and topped by the inscription Quinque Lustra in matching capitalized Latin, on