Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order of the Griffin, Knight GTRexclude award document for Italian-German Campaign

award document for Italian-German Campaign Medal

43 mm (w) x 39 mm (h)

attached to a suspension ring and French double folded loop

98 mm x 520 mm

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order of the Griffin, Knight GTRexclude award document for Italian-German Campaign(Greifenorden Kreuz der Komture und Grokomtur mit Etui). Instituted 15 September 1884 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. (1884 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with red enameled arms demonstrating a rich hatching, the obverse overlaid by a central medallion bearing a raised Mecklenburg royal Griffin, situated within a circular ring, the twelve oclock arm topped by a pebbled fan perforated with a