Poland, Republic. An Order of Military Virtue with Miniature, Type VI, c.1945 Auction Archive Much of the leather has

Much of the leather has been lost to time but the pieces that still exist exhibit the original embossed pattern and motifs used to decorate it

are presumably postwar images added by Gertrud Seyss-Inquart and their children

An Eastern People’s Merit Decoration

containing twelve black-and-white photographs

Poland, Republic. An Order of Military Virtue with Miniature, Type VI, c.1945 Auction Archive Much of the leather has(Virtuti Militari). Instituted 1792. (c. 1942). A silver Cross Patte with dual ball finals and black enamel lettering and boarders, on a fixed loop and ring for suspension from its period original ribbon using a dual needle pin,the cenre in bronze gilt presenting a leftward facing white enameled eagle within a green enameled laurel wreath, bearing the orders name on the arms of the cross in black enamels, the reverse with a similar bronze gilt centre,