Schaumburg-Lippe and Saxe-Meningen. A Faithful Service Cross and Women’s Merit Cross, c.1915 Auction Archive engaging for three years' service

engaging for three years' service and taking the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Office

held in place by silvered aluminum buttons with pebbled uppers at the neck end

Instituted in 1833

Type II (1850-1955) (Ordre des Palmes Académiques

2 mm (w) x 70 mm (h- inclusive of its eagle and crossed cannons and cannonballs suspension)

Schaumburg-Lippe and Saxe-Meningen. A Faithful Service Cross and Women’s Merit Cross, c.1915 Auction Archive engaging for three years' serviceSchaumburg Lippe, Principality. A Faithful Service Cross of 1914, (Kreuz fr Treue Dienste 1914). Instituted 18 November 1914 by Prince Adolph. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension, consisting of a Geneva Cross, the obverse bearing a central monogram of Prince Adolph, the arms bearing an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE 1914 (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE 1914), reverse plain, unmarked, measuring 35. 78 mm (w) x 40. 66 mm (h),