Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Iron Crown, I Class Star, C.1855 certificate_of_authenticity on period ribbon and brooch

on period ribbon and brooch

McGee with a strength of 32 officers and 953 other ranks

addressed in black ink but difficult to decipher

in blue and white enamels

Richard Henry Griffiths was born in Derbyshire in February 1873

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Iron Crown, I Class Star, C.1855 certificate_of_authenticity on period ribbon and brooch(Orden der Eisernen Krone). Instituted in 1805. Re established in 1815. Type II (1838 1860). Displaying an early design in a reduced size, a very scarce eight pointed silver star with smooth rays and pebbled frame, obverse featuring a centrepiece in Gold presenting a superposed central Iron Crown with details of multi coloured enamels also in Gold, on a pebbled Gold background surrounded by an enameled blue broad ring inscribed AVITA ET AUCTA (Inherit