Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar Auction Archive Cairo assay and silver standard

Cairo assay and silver standard marked on the pin

the obverse in the shape of a gilded oval oak wreath

with a 40 mm long knurled stick pin (previously repaired)

000 (except for thecity states of Berlin and Hamburg

Gold and enamels (rays between the arms of the cross in Gold) unmarked star

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar Auction Archive Cairo assay and silver standard(Ordensschnalle). An extensive medal bar featuring four decorations, including a Merit Medal in Gold, constructed of 18 karat Gold, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse with a finely detailed leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked,