Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1914 Archive The center grand cross has

The center grand cross has a iron magnetic/core

suspended from a silver and blue enameled bar

riveted to a bar with an eyelet for rivet attachment

Bauer also signed it in blue ink

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Count Zeppelin and Zeppelin in Campaign Action Commemorative Medal 1914 (in bronze

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1914 Archive The center grand cross has(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II. (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with a central white enamelled