a original Italian   first war bronze tribute medal 

for  soldiers of Trieste 

   with detail of two  female warriors and wolf       

reverse reads

   Trieste la fedele di Roma

        redenta   3-x1-1918  

being   

  Trieste, Rome's loyal city,

for the valor of the soldiers of redeemed Italy.  

       3-11-1918  

 

designer marked SJ

in very good  condition 

 complete with original red white and blue silk ribbon 

a very  fine detailed  tribute medal made in 1918  

#   During World War I, an estimated 600,000 Italians died on the Western Front alone