Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels certificate_of_authenticity This is an extremely well-preserved

This is an extremely well-preserved Waffen-SS Panzer EM/NCO’s overseas cap

two soldiers to his right in the trenches with a machine gun and the inscription "PRISE DE VIMY" (Capture of Vimy Ridge) above

maker marled "FREDERICO COSTA

due to the overwhelming superiority of the German troops

marked “100” for size

Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels certificate_of_authenticity This is an extremely well-preserved(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