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while playing right back in a football (soccer) match

blackened leather with double machine-stitching reinforcing all seams

topped by four bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with black threaded chevrons

with award document dated 16

that Rosewas of "Above average intelligence

Austria, Imperial. A Pair of Decorations Province of China while playing right back inAustria, Imperial. A Merit Cross 1849, III Class Cross with Crown, by W. Kunz; (Verdienstkreuz 1849 3. Klasse). Issued 1914 1918. A cross constructed of silver with red enamelled arms, the obverse with a central silver medallion inscribed FJ for Franz Joseph, surrounded by a broad silver ring, inscribed VIRIBUS UNITIS (Latin Stand United), the reverse with a similar central silver medallion dated 1849, on a swivel crown and loop for suspension, the