The leather on the dome remains smooth to the touch and the exterior stitching is good
a total of 4 years and 293 days post-war home service
with all three prongs perfectly preserved
the ship was stationed in the North Sea
five of which are stamped with “RZM M5/314” indicating the maker Paul Brüder
Albania, Italian Occupied. An Order of Skanderbeg, III Class, by Cravanzola, c.1943 Auction Archive The leather on the dome(Urdhri i Skenderbeut). Instituted December 3rd, 1925. Type II (1940 1944). Of Italian manufacture,in silver gilt, a 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 and FERT, the reverse plain, central cartouche marked DITTA