Australia. Australian Service Longarms And Australian Service Bayonets (Pair) certificate_of_authenticity on a 41 mm long

on a 41 mm long needle pin

to award Mexican republican officers and enlisted men who fought throughout the war against the French Army from 1862 to 1867

edge bruising present

measuring 28 mm (w) x 44 mm (h)

the obverse bearing a white cotton disc measuring 90 mm in diameter

Australia. Australian Service Longarms And Australian Service Bayonets (Pair) certificate_of_authenticity on a 41 mm long1. Australian Service Longarms by Ian D. Skennerton: hardcover, yellow cloth exterior, copyright 1975, published in 1976 at Margate and printed by Watson Ferguson & Company of Brisbane, ISBN 0 9597438 0 4, inscribed "Of a limited edition of two thousand copies this is number" and numbered in handwritten black ink "882" on the fly page, with six chapters entitled: 1. Australians in Service; 2. Their Longarms Pre Federation; 3. Their Longarms Post