Venezuela, Republic. An Order Of Merit In Gold, Officer's Badge, C.1865 Archive (Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen Anstecknadel)

(Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen Anstecknadel)

in a intertwined braided pattern

the British lion and date marked "v" (1920) on the reverse

Footnote: Richard Walter Rayner was born on February 7

and the Gold centerpiece presents a left facing French cockerel

Venezuela, Republic. An Order Of Merit In Gold, Officer's Badge, C.1865 Archive (Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen Anstecknadel)(Orden Honor al Merito). Instituted 1861. 1861 1881 Issue. A superb cross of French manufacture, in Gold, consisting of a white enameled cross with ball finials, with finely enameled laurels and coffee branches in each quadrant, obverse centre depicting the coat of arms of Venezuela, encircled by an enameled blue border inscribed by REPUBLICA DE VENEZUELA (Republic of Venezuela), reverse depicting engraved inscription 29 AGOSTO 1861 (29 August, 1861)