This listing is for a silver medal honoring the Jewish millionaire philanthropost and Tobacco Factory owner, Bernhard Baron of Carreras, Ltd. in London, England. He first immigrated from Brest-Litovsk, Russia to New York where he worked in a cigar factory and later moved to London to become a leading manufacturer and distributor of tobacco products in Britain. He died at the age of 78 in 1929. He was an early zionist and supporter of Palestine.