Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Auction Medal of Duke Carl Eduard

Medal of Duke Carl Eduard - medal in solid silver (marked SILBER 990 on the rim)

In May 1950

Houghton took command of Canada's first aircraft carrier

the reverse presents the inscription VERDIENST UM DEN STAAT (SERVICE TO THE STATE)

His learned trade was a farmer

Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Auction Medal of Duke Carl Eduard(Salatgabel). Constructed of silver, featuring four sharpened prongs in barb shape, the obverse plain, the reverse stamped with a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above an unidentified academy insignia, with a silver mark of WMF 90 2,5 indicating German manufacture, measuring 46 mm (w) x 195 mm (l), weighing 57. 0 grams, in extremely fine condition.