Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross, by E. Gardino Cravanzola, c.1950 Auction Archive with encompassing green enameled laurels

with encompassing green enameled laurels

There are photos of this service as well as photos of him during his Vietnam service

and recessed medal bed for placement of the awards

the obverse with a central laurel wreath with a leftward facing eagle with a static swastika on the bottom of the wreath

with handwritten entries in red and black inks

Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross, by E. Gardino Cravanzola, c.1950 Auction Archive with encompassing green enameled laurels(Souverner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom heiligen Johannes von Jerusalem von Rhodos und von Malta). Instituted circa 1099 (c. 1950 issue). The Sash Badge, in bronze gilt and red and white enamels, consisting of a four point cross bearing a central red enamelled medallion with a white enamelled Maltese Cross, surrounded by a white ring of enamels inscribed Mil. Ordo. Equitum Melit. Bene Merenti in gilt capitalized letters, the reverse medallion in red