Austria, Empire. A Bravery Medal, I. Class, Type I Franz Joseph I Variant (1849-1859 Issue) Newly Listed twenty-six men were parachuted into

twenty-six men were parachuted into the area of Bourg Léopold in the north-eastern part of Belgium close to the western edge of the Maastricht appendix of the Netherlands

A grouping of seven miniature stickpin awards

private purchase four button tunic made of a thick cotton

with ribbed grip on the bronze handle

reverse illustrating the Secretariat Building

Austria, Empire. A Bravery Medal, I. Class, Type I Franz Joseph I Variant (1849-1859 Issue) Newly Listed twenty-six men were parachuted into(Tapferkeitsmedaille). Instituted July 17th, 1789. Type I (1849 1859). A Bravery Medal, I. Class, consisting of a round medal constructed of silver, with a horizontally oriented oval fixed loop for suspension from its period original tri fold ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing effigy of Franz Joseph I, circumscribed Franz Joseph I Kaiser von Oesterreich in capital letters, the reverse inscribed Der Tapferkeit (For Bravery) within a laurel