Austria, Empire. An Officer’s Bravery Medal - I Class, Karl I Variant (1917-1918 Issue) visually-hidden constructed of two pieces of

constructed of two pieces of card stock with a red canvas exterior liner

The document is dated to Berlin on November 23

A silver gilt star with nine arm white enamels star affixed by multiple intricate silver gilt screw posts

The cap band is flanked on each side by blackened magnetic metal rivets

pasted to an off-white card stock backer and situated above von der Heydte’s handwritten signature in blue ink

Austria, Empire. An Officer’s Bravery Medal - I Class, Karl I Variant (1917-1918 Issue) visually-hidden constructed of two pieces of(Tapferkeitsmedaille). Instituted July 17th, 1789. Karl I Variant (1917 1918 Issue). A Bravery Medal I Class, consisting of a round medal constructed of silver, with a pierced ball suspension and a swivel ring for suspension from its period original tri fold ribbon bearing a metal K for officers, the obverse with a rightward facing effigy of Karl I circumscribed by his name and title, the reverse inscribed Fortitudini (Fortitude) within a laurel