Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar United Republic of A fine and highly desirable

A fine and highly desirable ribbon bar for the blood order

Footnote: Guy Arthur Jones Ashwin was the only son of Albert John Ashwin of London and a native of Kent

53 mm x 75

the Order never granted them again

) of Submarine crew

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar United Republic of A fine and highly desirable(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,