Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Newly Listed navy blue and green enamels

navy blue and green enamels and inscribed ""SPECIAL SERVICE 1886""

Footnote: The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is associated with centuries of historical and political intrigue

Footnote: Private John D

measures 21 cm (w) x 14

chipping evident in the white enamels on the top ray and in the violet enamels on one flower on the right cluster on the reverse

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Newly Listed navy blue and green enamels(Militr Verdienstmedaille). Instituted on 30 May 1850. Type I. A circular silver medal, the obverse with the crowned cipher of Prince Georg Wilhelm within an ornate laurel wreath, the reverse centre inscribed FR MILITAIR VERDIENST (FOR MILITARY MERIT) above crossed cavalry sabres within an ornate laurel wreath, measuring 30. 32 mm in diameter, on loop for suspension from period original ribbon with enamelled red cross, and in very fine condition.