Lippe-Schaumberg, Principality. A Long Service Decoration, C.1851 Auction Archive when a heavy storm drove

when a heavy storm drove all other machines back to their aerodromes and the enemy guns took the opportunity to become active

The ornately-designed scabbard exhibits a lightning design

Commissioned in 1916

Dresden (maker logo on reverse)

Lippe-Schaumberg, Principality. A Long Service Decoration, C.1851 Auction Archive when a heavy storm drove(Dienstauszeichnungen). Instituted 11 June 1851 by Prince Paul Friedrich Emile Leopold III. A gilded iron clasp for ten years (N. C. O. and men), P F E L cipher inscribed on obverse for Paul Friedrich Emile Leopold, reverse bears a horizontal pinback, stitched on red ribbon with two yellow stripes, measuring 45. 17 mm (w) x 14. 08 mm (h), very fine.