Austria, Empire, Republic. Two First Class Military Long Service Decorations consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The tiger is encompassed by

The tiger is encompassed by thirty six round

marked "ACID TEST" on the reverse

a three-place ribbon bar with 1939 Iron Cross

surface wear on the obverse of the IGSM

Austria, Empire, Republic. Two First Class Military Long Service Decorations consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The tiger is encompassed by(Militrverdienstzeichen fr Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften). Instituted in 1849. 1. Empire: Military Long Service Decoration, I Class to NCOs and Men for Twenty Years' Service, Type V (1913 1918) (two piece construction, silvered bronze insignia inscribed "XX" in Roman numerals (20) within a wreath, the insignia mounted to a bronze gilt cross base, measuring 36. 5 mm (w) x 39. 5 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension, original triangular ribbon