TR009 The Archduke Franz-Ferdinand & His Wife Sophie K&C First World War Brilliant colors were used to

Brilliant colors were used to render the device: the raptor and its shield

Rhode Island

It also added considerable weight throwing off the designed balance of the rifle

and the buttons were of pewter

Australian and American influences

TR009 The Archduke Franz-Ferdinand & His Wife Sophie K&C First World War Brilliant colors were used toOn Sunday, 28 June 1914 the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie were on a visit to Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro Hungarian providence of Bosnia Herzegovina. While there a young Bosnian extremist, Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed the Royal couple as they drove through the city. The assassinations, along with a European arms race, hyper nationalism, the military ambitions of