Austria, Empire. Two Austrian Imperial Awards Auction Archive The organization saw itself as

The organization saw itself as "the common effort of all persons who saw themselves as teachers or wanted to be seen as educators

Adding in his wartime service

Knight 2nd Class with Swords (multi-piece construction

surrounded by a ribboned wreath of oak leaves

and Military Apparatus for Sports Medal

Austria, Empire. Two Austrian Imperial Awards Auction Archive The organization saw itself asA grouping of two Austrian imperial awards, consisting of 1) A Fourth Class Merit Cross 1849; constructed of silver, with red enameled arms; the obverse with a silver medallion, inscribed FJ for Franz Joseph in capital lettering, surrounded by an ornately decorated ring; the reverse with a similar medallion, dated 1849 in silver numbering, suspended from a horizontally pierced suspension from a tri fold ribbon with gilded swords attached; measuring