Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 GTRexclude Communication Research Operator

Communication Research Operator

captured an enemy mortar observer

arriving in Liverpool

the reverse with an identical central monogram

Some documents partly on paper backing

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 GTRexclude Communication Research Operator(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