An Austrian Golden Cross Of Merit With Crown In Gold By V. Mayer & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity with much of original factory

with much of original factory lacquer still present

The more than three million unsold stamps were promptly destroyed by the Post Office thus making the three Graf Zeppelin issues by far the USPOD's smallest of the 20th Century

Bates and Steve Frank ended up dropping out of college to work full time for VIVA

he joined the Police and became an Inspector at Millwall Docks in London

was sent back:

An Austrian Golden Cross Of Merit With Crown In Gold By V. Mayer & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity with much of original factoryA fine quality manufacture cased Austrian Cross of Merit with Crown; gold cross patte with arms in rounded ends, with a gold crown suspension signed V. Mayers Shne, in Wien, with the Gemsenkopf 3A hallmark for 18k gold; the obverse with a circular central white medallion with FJ for Emperor Franz Joseph within a gold border and the inscription Viribus Unitis (Strength Through Unity); the reverse equally with a circular central white medallion with the