Poland, Republic. An Order of Military Virtue with Miniature, Type VI, c.1945 Auction Archive An Eastern People’s Merit Decoration

An Eastern People’s Merit Decoration

obverse illustrating the right-facing bust of Admiral Edward Boscawen

July 23rd 1916" (under government file #141860)

are presumably postwar images added by Gertrud Seyss-Inquart and their children

The blade sits securely within a ribbed nickel-silver upper crossguard

Poland, Republic. An Order of Military Virtue with Miniature, Type VI, c.1945 Auction Archive An Eastern People’s Merit Decoration(Virtuti Militari). Instituted 1792. (c. 1942). A silver Cross Patte with dual ball finals and black enamel lettering and boarders, on a fixed loop and ring for suspension from its period original ribbon using a dual needle pin,the cenre in bronze gilt presenting a leftward facing white enameled eagle within a green enameled laurel wreath, bearing the orders name on the arms of the cross in black enamels, the reverse with a similar bronze gilt centre,