United States. A Cased Purple Heart Medal to Frank W. Kuss Auction on a grayish-green wool base

on a grayish-green wool base

July 1926)

the obverse centerpiece illustrating a standing helmeted woman dressed in robes

Commander's neck Cross (CBE)

with both prongs on the reverse fully intact

United States. A Cased Purple Heart Medal to Frank W. Kuss Auction on a grayish-green wool base(Instituted August 7th 1782 by George Washington). Of two piece construction in the shape of a heart in bronze gilt and with purple, red, white, and green enamels, the obverse with a gilded leftward facing bust of George Washington affixed onto purple coloured and heart shaped enamels with the Coat of Arms of George Washington, consisting of a white enameled shield with two horizontally positioned red enameled bars and three horizontally positioned