Baden, Grand Duchy. A Golden Merit Medal, C.1910 Hold with metal plate backing

with metal plate backing

and blue woven ribbon

1945 to Headquarters

A 1933 Deutsche Messe Herford Badge

all on a lemon-yellow Waffenfarbe backer

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Golden Merit Medal, C.1910 Hold with metal plate backing(Goldene Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 1907 by Grand Duke Friedrich II. (1908 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich II, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 38. 48 mm in diameter, weighing 20. 9 grams, most of the