Saxe-Weimar, Grand Duchy. A Silver Merit Medal, By Ferdinand Helfricht GTRexclude reverse is backed with black

reverse is backed with black paper and has a horizontal wire for hanging

as used in Canada and overseas

in interlocking silvered and gilded twisted wire

1 British Red Cross Hospital at Le Touquet and was invalided to England aboard the Hospital Ship Stad Antwerpen

Footnote: early Franco period insignia is of far superior quality and scarcer in comparison to post 1960 issued insignia

Saxe-Weimar, Grand Duchy. A Silver Merit Medal, By Ferdinand Helfricht GTRexclude reverse is backed with black(Silberne Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 5 August 1895 by Grand Duke Carl Alexander. (1892 1902 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Carl Alexander, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of DEM VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath, the obverse maker marked HELFRICHT F., the edge with a silver