Italy, Republic. An Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic, Grand Cross Badge in Frame visually-hidden A First World War Legion

A First World War Legion veteran

Kurland Cufftitle - machine woven silvery-grey cotton construction cufftitle

with supplementary documents issued by Socialist Unity Party (SEP) Potsdam District First Secretary Werner Wittig and SEP Karl-Marx-Stadt District First Secretary Paul Roscher

missing loop assembly for suspension

Italy, Republic. An Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic, Grand Cross Badge in Frame visually-hidden A First World War Legion(Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana). Instituted in 1951. A framed Grand Cross Badge in silver gilt, featuring a white enamel cross with a Goldfive point star in the centre, ball finial at each end of each arm, with eagles in each quadrant, reverse mirrors the obverse, the cross is surmounted by a large crown of the republic, measures 70. 45mm (w) x 94. 60mm (h inclusive of crown suspension and integral ring), on a period full length green and