Austria, Imperial. Three First & Second War German-Austrian-Ottoman Alliance Badges Hold with bright red enamels exhibiting

with bright red enamels exhibiting only minor wear

the other is a post-war version and has a blank reverse

maker marked “RZM M9/41” for “Julius Maurer

GRV with CANADA suspension bar (Major R

first reported missing in action on the day - July 14th 1917

Austria, Imperial. Three First & Second War German-Austrian-Ottoman Alliance Badges Hold with bright red enamels exhibitingThree first war period Imperial German, Third Reich German, Imperial Austrian, and Ottoman Kingdom alliance friendship badges of note is the second war German VDA (Verein fr Deutsche Kulturbeziehung im Ausland Association for German cultural relations abroad) membership badge in silvered feinzink with white, black, and blue enamels, the reverse with a black enameled mobile swastika, with VDA inscribed in the centre, vertical pinback, unmarked,