United Kingdom. A Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire, Officer’s Badge, Lady’s Version Case Archive and with silvered aluminum pip

and with silvered aluminum pip and medical insignia superimposed on the top

complete with six of its seven towers intact (which is rare for the these three-dimensional models)

the obverse and reverse with a central blue enameled medallion inscribed “Piis Meritis”

effective May 10

reverse marked with the number 1974

United Kingdom. A Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire, Officer’s Badge, Lady’s Version Case Archive and with silvered aluminum pipInstituted 4 June 1917. A presentation case for an Officers Badge of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Ladys Version, constructed of a wood frame with a faux black leather exterior, the obverse lid with a gold embossed inscription of O. B. E., the interior with a padded white satin type lid liner and intact hinge cover, maker marked Garrard & Co. Ltd., by special appointment to His Majesty the King, 23 Albemarle St. London & Dalhousie