Item #C5651
In silvered bronze with blue enamels, maker marked "W. SCULLY MONTREAL" on the reverse, illustrating a shield bearing a beaver in the centre, flanked by a branch of laurel leaves at the left and a branch of maple leaves at the right, the date "1916" above the beaver, a voided area with the number "2" affixed over the void below, the shield surmounted by a crown with a blue ribbon banner inscribed "CITY OF", two blue ribbon banners at the base inscribed "KITCHENER" and "POLICE", measuring 66.3 mm (w) x 80 mm (h), dual screwbacks, evidence of a digit in front of the "2" having fallen off, chipping present in the blue enamels on the "CITY OF" ribbon banner, very fine.
Footnote: Kitchener is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario. Located approximately 100 km (62 mi) west of Toronto, Kitchener is the regional seat. It was called the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916, when the name was changed to the City of Kitchener, after Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, a British Empire Field Marshal killed during the First World War.