Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Grand Duchy. A Silver Merit Medal, C.1845 GTRexclude Later Issue c

Later Issue c

547 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping

Looped around the right shoulder board and top breast button is a finely-detailed officer’s shoulder cord

Newspaper Articles and Military Cross Citations in the London Gazette and the Canada Gazette

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Grand Duchy. A Silver Merit Medal, C.1845 GTRexclude Later Issue c(Silberne Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 1834 by Grand Duke Carl Friedrich. (1834 1857 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a raised leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Carl Friedrich, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of DEM VERDIENSTE (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 35. 57 mm in diameter, weighing 26. 7 grams