Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration, Ii Class Bar Newly Listed 50 mm needle on back

50 mm needle on back

the wreck of USS Herring was located near Matua Island by a joint expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and Russian Defence Ministry

Footnote: Karl Böhm of Vienna was a manufacturer of the Order of Franz Joseph between 1914 and 1918

The band around its circumference is in the same light brown as the body

Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration, Ii Class Bar Newly Listed 50 mm needle on backA rectangular bar constructed of silver, the obverse bears the cipher F. W. III. (Friedrich Wilhelm III), on a pebbled background, the reverse is plain, and bears a magnetic metal backer with horizontal pinback, on a blue ribbon with white stripes, measuring 42. 55 mm (w) x 28. 75 mm (h), very fine.