Austria, Empire. A Bravery Medal, I. Class, Type I Franz Joseph I Variant (1849-1859 Issue) Newly Listed private purchase four button tunic

private purchase four button tunic made of a thick cotton

his actual birth year was discovered to be 1876

with ribbed grip on the bronze handle

who was thirteen years his junior and is listed in the Scottish censuses on 1851

The grip is comprised of a solid

Austria, Empire. A Bravery Medal, I. Class, Type I Franz Joseph I Variant (1849-1859 Issue) Newly Listed private purchase four button tunic(Tapferkeitsmedaille). Instituted July 17th, 1789. Type I (1849 1859). A Bravery Medal, I. Class, consisting of a round medal constructed of silver, with a horizontally oriented oval fixed loop for suspension from its period original tri fold ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing effigy of Franz Joseph I, circumscribed Franz Joseph I Kaiser von Oesterreich in capital letters, the reverse inscribed Der Tapferkeit (For Bravery) within a laurel