Austria, Second Republic. A Military Order of Maria Theresia, Knight’s Cross, Museum Exhibition Example, by C.F Rothe & Neffe, c. 1970 visually-hidden especially at the top

especially at the top

to raise money for and bring attention to the occupation of Czechoslovakia

(Tamgha-e-Istiqlal)

used after the admission of Oklahoma as the forty-sixth state in 1908

while his paternal grandfather (General Paul Charles François Adrien Henri Dieudonné Thiébault's father) was Dieudonné Thiébault (December 26

Austria, Second Republic. A Military Order of Maria Theresia, Knight’s Cross, Museum Exhibition Example, by C.F Rothe & Neffe, c. 1970 visually-hidden especially at the top(Militr Maria Theresien Orden). Instituted on June 18th, 1757. (c. 1970 issue). A fine quality Museum Exhibition example of this prestigious order, consisting of a gilded silver Cross Patte with white enameled arms, the obverse with a central medallion bearing horizontal red white red stripes of enamels representing the Austrian flag, surrounded by a white enameled ring inscribed Fortitudini in capitalized Latin, the reverse equally with white