Italy, Kingdom. An Africa Campaigns Medal, 2 Clasps, C.1895 Auction Archive WWI 132nd Infantry Battalion Collar

WWI 132nd Infantry Battalion Collar Tab CEF - Pickled copper

along with a black spot

and a small rip on the bottom of the spine

with three times that many wounded

flanked by knotted ropes on either side

Italy, Kingdom. An Africa Campaigns Medal, 2 Clasps, C.1895 Auction Archive WWI 132nd Infantry Battalion Collar(Medaglia delle campagne dAfrica). Instituted 1894. Circular medal in bronze, obverse bearing a right facing portrait of King Umberto I, the reverse inscribed with CAMPAGNE DAFRICA (AFRICA CAMPAIGN) encircled by a laurel wreath tied with a ribbon at the bottom, makers mark SPERANZA located on obverse by portrait, measuring 31. 60 mm (w) x 36. 80 mm (h), on a red ribbon with two blue stripes. Accompanied by two clasps, the first inscribed with CAMPAGNE