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| adres rozdziału = https://www.rp.pl/ekonomia/art13653071-mafia-kolekcjonerska-pod-mlotkiem
| rok = 22 June 2012
}}</ref> Even though it was never was a state decoration, its badges were made by the Polish National Mint and the decoration ceremony was sometimes held in a Polish embassy with all the fanfare typically associated with such occasions.
The badge is a little shield in the roughly triangular shape of a goblet, measuring 57×45 mm. The shield is adorned with a bull's or bison's head in black enamel overlaid with a crossed knife and fork. The badge was hanged one the recipient's neck by a yellow-and-red ribbon with a metal buckle in the shape of a filled dumpling. It comes in a decorative box, whose lid bears the bison's head again, as well as the Latin motto: ''``Materiam superat opus"'' ("The workmanship surpasses the material").<ref>{{Cyt
