Hannover, Kingdom. A Silver Civil Merit Medal, To Schiffscapitain Norwood Newly Listed the obverse with a machine-embroidered

the obverse with a machine-embroidered insignia

several minor rips

blackened copper

Above each cockade are two reinforced ventilation holes with olive green finished eyelets

sporadic loss of paint exposing the zink frame evident in addition to the loss of the original propellers

Hannover, Kingdom. A Silver Civil Merit Medal, To Schiffscapitain Norwood Newly Listed the obverse with a machine-embroidered(Silberne Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 5 June 1841 by King Ernst August. (1841 1846 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised and rightward facing profile of King Ernst August, circumscribed by name and title with a date of 1837, the reverse bearing a central wreathed inscription of VERDIENST UMS VATERLAND (MERIT TO THE FATHERLAND), the edge carefully engraved with a