Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now with matching rosette

with matching rosette

his age unknown

the obverse with the rightward facing bust of Kaiser Franz

but after several talks and explanations

He died on May 5

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now with matching rosette(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