Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and narrow dual fullers running

and narrow dual fullers running the majority of the length of each side

measuring 54 mm x 33 mm

Many of the practices and ideals set forth by the ARP lived on beyond the War thorough Civil Defence during the Cold War and still exist today in civilian organizations in the United Kingdom and the United States

then in turn sold to eMedals few weeks later (we have a copy of a purchase slip with son's signature)

and before it left my line of vision I saw two (2) chutes come out of the waist of the plane

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and narrow dual fullers running(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