Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order of the Griffin, Commander’s Cross with Case, by Heinrich Rose certificate_of_authenticity The cross can be awarded

The cross can be awarded up to four times in each class to the same person

including a War Commemorative Medal of 1870/71 for Combatants

they often used Osage Orange for it's resistance to decay

It is opened by a flap connected to the main body by dual bronze side rivets connecting to a leather strap affixed to the former by two brown leather loops

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order of the Griffin, Commander’s Cross with Case, by Heinrich Rose certificate_of_authenticity The cross can be awarded(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