France, III Republic. An Order Of Agricultural Merit, II Class Officer, C.1950 Auction the obverse showing the head

the obverse showing the head of Maximilian I facing right with the surrounding inscription MAXIMILIANO EMPERADOR (Maximilian Emperor)

it was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Knifton who first came to Parry Sound in 1895 as the new town clerk

After their return to the home field along a blacked out coastline

Constructed of brown painted wood

France, III Republic. An Order Of Agricultural Merit, II Class Officer, C.1950 Auction the obverse showing the head(Ordre du Mrite Agricole). Instituted in 1883. Type I without date 1900. In silver gilt with blue and white enamels, measuring 36. 7 mm (w) x 65. 2 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping and loss evident in the blue enamels on the reverse centrepiece ring, otherwise the enamels are intact, large rosette on its original ribbon, better than very fine. Footnote: The Order of Agricultural Merit was instituted on