Austria, Imperial. Order of the Knights of Malta, I Class Merit Cross visually-hidden missing its buckram core

missing its buckram core

without any pin back device

"27th April 1965

One featuring SS-Hauptsturmführer and later-Bundeswehr Oberstleutnant Heinrich Sonne (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

Both the top and bottom edges of the cap band are trimmed with dark green wool piping

Austria, Imperial. Order of the Knights of Malta, I Class Merit Cross visually-hidden missing its buckram core(Souverner Malteseorden I. Klasse Verdienstkreuz mit Kriegsdekoration). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of an Anchor Cross with white enamelled arms, the obverse with a central red enamelled medallion bearing a white enamelled Maltese cross, surrounded by a ring of white enamel bearing a gilt inscription of MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (MILITARY ORDER OF MERIT), the reverse medallion featuring a white