Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Silver Chain Of The Leopold Order, Private Issue GTRexclude "V" Device on original ribbon

"V" Device on original ribbon with brooch pinback

measuring 103 mm (l) x 47 mm (w)

overall very fine and scarce

" He was subsequently declared to be Category "E" (unfit for service in Categories A

on a thick khaki wool base

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Silver Chain Of The Leopold Order, Private Issue GTRexclude "V" Device on original ribbon(Leopold Orden, Silberne Kette). Instituted 24 June 1906 by Prince Leopold IV. (1916 1918 issue). A rare and privately made Silver Chain of the Princely Schaumburg Lippe House Order, consisting of 32 silver links joined together at both the top and bottom by a chain, 16 of the links consisting of finely detailed Lippian roses, each bearing a central enameled Schwalenberg coat of arms, within green enameled rings bearing silvered inscriptions of