Hohenzollern, State. An Order Of Hohenzollern Bene Merenti, Cross Of The Lord’s Mistress, C.1935 Buy Now Enamels intact

Enamels intact

Footnote: Military Prison Staff Corps

reflecting the old pre-war Royal Canadian Navy paternalism

and black enameled Imperial tricolour

In bronze and/or white metal

Hohenzollern, State. An Order Of Hohenzollern Bene Merenti, Cross Of The Lord’s Mistress, C.1935 Buy Now Enamels intactInstituted 1932. A silver gilt decoration presenting a white enamelled cross with thick black enamel borders, three smooth rays in each quadrant, the obverse medallion features the inscription BENE MERENTI on a white enamelled field, surrounded by a green enamelled wreath, a large gilt crown with internal red enamelled cap surmounts the cross, the reverse bears a ovular clip which contains the ribbon bow, a pin sits horizontally across the clip,