An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal Newly Listed and without sash ribbon

and without sash ribbon

marker marked "ARTHUS BERTRAND" and numbered "57" on the reverse

which have since been lost to time

Ebony-coloured wooden handle with embedded aluminum eagle rates very fine

died on March 21

An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal Newly Listed and without sash ribbonAn Italian Expedition to Albania Campaign Medal Type 1; Bronze, 32. 8 mm, original ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The medal was instituted on March 7, 1940, to be awarded to military and civilian participants in the Italian occupation of Albania. By 1939, Italy dominated all aspects of Albania life but in the minds of Mussolini and Ciano, German triumphs in Austria and Czechoslovakia demanded an Italian response. This came in the form of the