19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) collectible knife late 19th c or so

late 19th c or so

perhaps most of all the way the O and the W stretch the entire height of it

only one of them dated on the back

7 3/4" x 5 1/2" x 1 1/16"

19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) collectible knife late 19th c or soThe existence of rewards of merit makes me glad, given from teachers to students to affirm their good efforts, as does the fact that people saved them. Last weekend I found a large collection of them in a box in Midcoast Maine quite a nice variety of them, which I've divided into three groups, all listed today. The ones in this group were never filled in with the names of students, so I thought nice to group together, as one could fill them in and