Romania, Republic. An Order Of Labour, Ii Class, C.1950 Archive late of the European Regiment

late of the European Regiment

on the interior pocket

this may be explained by the desire of France to avenge the humiliation of her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 (and subsequent loss of Alsace and Lorraine)

and Stickpin (silver gilt

a Württemberg Military Merit Medal ribbon

Romania, Republic. An Order Of Labour, Ii Class, C.1950 Archive late of the European RegimentType II. (1945 1968 Issue). A silver badge consisting of a silver sunburst design culminating in a central yellow enamel disc, with a red enamel banner waving along the bottom half, a silver gilt emblem on top of the ribbon featuring a laurel wreath, wheat, and the hammer and sickle emblem, with the inscription RPR (Romanian Peoples Republic) in a red enamel banner, reverse presents a single vertical pin assembly, pin impressed 6, measures 44. 04mm