Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels Auction Archive 1870-1918 period

1870-1918 period

This is a very well-preserved Reichspost (Imperial Mail) EM/NCO’s visor cap

with the wearer’s name “Ltn

reverse dated 1930

Some of his compositions have been collected in the album "European Music at the Ottoman Court" by the London Academy of Ottoman Court Music

Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels Auction Archive 1870-1918 period(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