Albania, Italian Occupied. An Order of Skanderbeg, V Class Knight, c. 1945 visually-hidden including a 1914 Iron Cross

including a 1914 Iron Cross First Class awarded to Wilhelm Paffrath

who was accused of corruption and executed in April 1794

with submarine clasp

gilt wear on the left side of the horseshoe

Albania, Italian Occupied. An Order of Skanderbeg, V Class Knight, c. 1945 visually-hidden including a 1914 Iron Cross(Urdhri i Skenderbeut). Instituted December 3rd, 1925. Constructed of gilded silver with red, green, and blue enamels, consisting of a double headed Albanian eagle with red enameled wings, the obverse with a central blue medallion bearing the Royal Crown in gilt, surrounded by a ring of green enamels bearing the collar of the order, the reverse plain, on a loop for suspension from its period original full length ribbon, unmarked, measuring 35. 1 mm