Baden, Grand Duchy. A Silver Merit Medal Newly Listed which is signed and closed

which is signed and closed off as of 6 January 1944

there is a part-border of oak leaves with the remaining border section an inscription reading “TREUE UM TREUE SAAR 1935” (Loyal and True Saar 1935)

18th Field Artillery

Affixed to the peak is a hollow pressed black leather channel through which is inserted a removable aluminum cockade

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Silver Merit Medal Newly Listed which is signed and closed(Silberne Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 30 September 1866 by Grand Duke Friedrich I. (1868 1881 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich I, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR SERVICE), within a circular oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 40. 58 mm in diameter,