Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now a Reich Union of Large

a Reich Union of Large Families (RDR) membership badge

exhibiting scattered spotting

marked with a silver hallmark of “WK”

the round link bears a laurel wreath and the obverse center is hand engraved “49” in block numbers

the label marked with a large printed “A”

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now a Reich Union of Large(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