Germany, Imperial. A Military Messenger Pigeon Distinguished Breeding Medal, With Case certificate_of_authenticity and from 1906 to 1914

and from 1906 to 1914 as regiment adjutant

In 1873 he wrote A Descriptive Catalogue of the Political and Memorial Medals Struck in Honor of Abraham Lincoln that has since become the basis for those collecting Lincoln pieces

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and it was through the 1CACR’s efforts that their effectiveness was proven

Germany, Imperial. A Military Messenger Pigeon Distinguished Breeding Medal, With Case certificate_of_authenticity and from 1906 to 1914(Brieftauben Wesen Medaille mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze, the oberse bearing a raised messenger pigeon perched on top of a pillar, set against a rural landscape with a rising sun, the reverse bearing an engraved and wreathed inscription of DEM VIERFACHEN SIEGER 1930 (TO THE FOURFOLD WINNER 1930), unmarked, measuring 40 mm diameter, accompanied by its period original presentation case, constructed of a heavy card stock frame with a faux dark