This commemorative medal was struck on the occasion of the 50th wedding anniversary of Arnold Otto Meyer and his wife Louise Caroline Ferber in 1905. Meyer, originally from Hamburg, moved to Singapore in 1848 to replace his brother Valentin Lorenz Meyer as a minority share partner at Behn, Meyer and Co., considered the first German trading company in Singapore. The crux of business for Behn, Meyer and Co. was conducting trade for other businesses as well as its own account, primarily selling regional products to Europe and bringing in European goods to Southeast Asia. In 1906, Otto Meyer took over the firm and eventually expanded its branches to other parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Otto Meyer was also one of the co-founders of the Teutonia Club, a social club set up by Germans in Singapore for their community in 1856. In that same year, Otto Meyer welcomed his first child, Eduard Lorenz Meyer, who would take over the firm after Otto Meyer's death in 1913.
