Reuss, Principality. A Golden Merit Medal Of The Princely Honour Cross, With Swords Newly Listed stamped with maker’s mark for

stamped with maker’s mark for Carl Halfar of Berlin in black ink

measuring 40 mm x 38 mm

238" on the underside at the right end

2 mm and coded "22 234 SI"

mounted for brooch wear

Reuss, Principality. A Golden Merit Medal Of The Princely Honour Cross, With Swords Newly Listed stamped with maker’s mark for(Goldene Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern zum Frstlich Reuischen Ehrenkreuz). Instituted 25 May 1869 by Prince Heinrich XIV. (1909 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, on loop for suspension, the obverse bearing a raised central monogram of Prince Heinrich XIV, within a pebbled border, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT) in Fraktur script, within a raised circular laurel leaf wreath, the twelve oclock