Germany, Imperial. A Military Messenger Pigeon Silver Merit Medal, With Case Auction complete with backing plate and

complete with backing plate and fastening nut on reverse

The left breast pocket has two vertically-aligned horizontal loops in green threading for placement of an award

Nine and Ten and a major adhesion to Treaty Five - which brought thousands of Native people in non-agricultural districts under treaty

very fine condition with a sharp bend

harshly cleaned (this cross appears to have been buried)

Germany, Imperial. A Military Messenger Pigeon Silver Merit Medal, With Case Auction complete with backing plate and(Militr Brieftaubenwesen Medaille in Silber mit Etui). Constructed of silver, the obverse bearing a raised rightward facing profile of Kaiser Wilhelm II, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing a central messenger pigeon flying over a fortress and city landscape, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS MILITAIR BRIEFTAUBENWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MILITARY MESSENGER PIGEON REARING), the obverse designer marked E. WEIGAND F.,