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}}</ref> Even though it was never had the status of a state decoration, its badges were made by the Polish National Mint and the decoration ceremony was sometimes held at 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 came in a decorative box, whose lid bore the bison's head again, along with the Latin motto: ''``Materiam superat opus"'' ("The workmanship surpasses the material").<ref>{{Cyt