Greece, Republic. An Academy of Athens Research Award, Angel Balevski 1977 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic featuring a tall brass comb

featuring a tall brass comb depicting a lion attacking a serpent on each side

The order ceased to exist with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918

the battalion named erased and re-impressed in lower case

with a mandate to prepare Portuguese female youth for their roles as wives and mothers in accordance with the Estado Novo's traditionalist milieu

with a strap incorporating an adjustable length metal buckle placed on both sides

Greece, Republic. An Academy of Athens Research Award, Angel Balevski 1977 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic featuring a tall brass combAwarded by the Academy of Athens, the highest research institute in Greece, featuring a 34 link collar each with green and black enamel, with center medallion presenting left facing bust of Athena, representing wisdom and intellectual progress, surrounded by green enameled laurels, reverse with a plain field and engraved and dedicated to Angel Balevski who was the recipient of the rare Soviet Lomonosov Gold Medal, measuring 51 mm (w) x 75 mm (h