Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now measuring 85 mm (w) x

measuring 85 mm (w) x 136 mm (h)

the label marked with a large printed “A”

The first awards were made in January 1943

which is separately machine stitched to the red cotton armband

marked with a silver hallmark of “WK”

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now measuring 85 mm (w) x(Frstlich Lippischer Hausorden Silbernes Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Paul Friedrich Emil Leopold of Lippe Detmold and Prince Adolf Georg of Schaumburg Lippe. (1869 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, with each arm completing in ball finials, the obverse bearing a central raised and crowned monogram of Prince Adolf Georg on a pebbled background, circumscribed by an institution