British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Austria, Empire, Teutonic Order, Mariana Cross, breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, slight enamel damage; Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class, silver-gilt and enamel; War Cross 1912-13; Officer’s Long Service Cross, silver and base gilt, with ‘mother-of-pearl’ reverse; Jubilee Medal 1898; Jubilee Medal 1908 - these all individually mounted Austrian style; ‘Franz Joseph’ pin-backed badge; Conrad von Hötzendorf Medallion 1914-15, by A. Hartig, obverse: bust left; reverse: von Hötzendorf in armour with sword and shield, regarded by dragon, 65mm., bronze, in case of issue (ref. Frankenhuis 335 var.; BDM VII, 421), very fine and better (8) £140-180

Ex Spink 30 November 2000, lot 392, being one of the lots of orders and medals attributed to Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (1874-1948). Peter Ferdinand was the third eldest son of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was titular claimant to the Grand Duchy, 1921-1948.

Conrad von Hötzendorf was Austrian Chief of the General Staff at the outbreak of the Great War.