Master Meteorologist Badge
after being made part of the Great General Staff in Berlin
Richard Baltzer
United States Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps Instructor Group
86 mm x 137 mm each
Italy, Kingdom. An Order Of The Crown Of Italy, V Class Knight, C.1885 Newly Listed Master Meteorologist Badge(Ordine della Corona d'Italia). Instituted in 1868. Multi piece construction, in 18K Gold with red, white, blue, green and black enamels, weighing 8. 6 grams, unmarked, measuring 35 mm in diameter x 39 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping evident in the white enamels on the edge of the arm at 9 o'clock on the reverse, otherwise the enamels are intact, original First War and 1930's period ribbon, near extremely fine. In