Romania, Socialist Republic. A Rare Order for Sport Merit, I Class Badge Hold along with nineteen Trade Clasps

along with nineteen Trade Clasps

The reverse is etched “Type A11

VERBAND” (“WÜRTTEMBERG STATE FIRE SERVICE ASSOCIATION”

a risky maneouver in the best of times

1942 and A/FL from December 19

Romania, Socialist Republic. A Rare Order for Sport Merit, I Class Badge Hold along with nineteen Trade Clasps(Ordinul Meritul Sportiv clasa a I a). Constructed of 14K Gold with brass and multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a red enameled medallion, overlaid by a Gold starburst with a blue enameled centrepiece bearing a gilt discus thrower, circumscribed by a gilt inscription of MERITUL SPORTIV (SPORT MERIT), all surrounded by a Gold laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the top by an enameled Romanian flag, the reverse showing a gilded bronze