with a skull and spiked helmet below
edged with gilded twisted wire (for drivers distinguished performance)
The division continued on anti-partisan duty until the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces of September 8
Let Us Never Be Ashamed" in Russian
period-altered with the ferrules removed
Italy, Parma. A Civil Merit Order Of St. Louis, Knight Iii Class, C.1900 Archive with a skull and spiked(Ordine di San Ludovico del merito civile). Instituted in 1849. In silver gilt with red, white and blue enamels, marked with a capital "I" and a partial fleur de lis on the ring, measuring 44 mm (w) x 66. 8 mm (h) inclusive of its crown and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping and crazing evident in the white enamels on the arms on both sides, the obverse and reverse centrepieces intact, on its original triangular ribbon with hook and eye, near