Austria, Empire. A Scarce 1892/1893 Far Eastern Cruise Medal, c. 1895 United Republic of Billiard Marked & Porter

Billiard Marked & Porter

consisting of a central black enameled mobile swastika flanked on both sides by white enamels with red enamels on the top and bottom of the swastika

Gilt wear on the RRC

the exterior bearing a silver-grey machine-embroidered inscription of “GESCHWADER HORST WESSEL”

1935 to September 30

Austria, Empire. A Scarce 1892/1893 Far Eastern Cruise Medal, c. 1895 United Republic of Billiard Marked & Porter(Seereise Denkmnze). Instituted November 11th, 1893. A circular gilded bronze medal, the obverse depicting a central fouled anchor topped by an Austrian Imperial Eagle, and placed within an open ended wreath of exotic flowers, circumscribed Reise S. M. Schiff Kaiserin Elisabeth in capitalized lettering, the reverse bearing the Royal Cypher of Empress Elizabeth within an open ended palm leaf wreath, centrally inscribed Ost Indien, Australien, Sdsee