Baden, Grand Duchy. A Civil Merit Medal, , C.1908 Auction 6) A rare and desirable

6) A rare and desirable Bavarian Observers Officer’s Badge

A First War Medal Group to Piper Neilson

he was struck off strength and transferred to No

He was struck off strength of the 21st Battalion and posted to the Eastern Ontario Regimental Depot at Seaford for duty with the Canadian Forestry Corps

maker marked  M 7/45 (Karl Bocker

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Civil Merit Medal, , C.1908 Auction 6) A rare and desirable(Civil Verdienstmedaille). Type XI. Originally instituted 1769. A circular medal constructed of gilded metal alloy, the obverse bears the left facing portrait of Friedrich II, circumscribed with FRIEDRICH II GROSSHERZOG VON BADEN, the reverse is inscribed with FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT) encompassed by an oak leaf wreath tied with a ribbon at the bottom, measuring 38. 87 mm (w) x 43. 43 mm (h), with suspension loop on a yellow and red ribbon, very fine.