Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Rare Princely House Order, II Class Cross in Gold, c. 1900 Archive unmarked measuring 16 mm (w)

unmarked measuring 16 mm (w) x 15 mm (h) with a 55 mm-long needle

2 WS and No2 BGS graduating on 8th November 1941 and commissioned in 1942

It features a turned-down collar which is fully lined on the obverse with smooth dark green wool

with the right side bearing the illegible remnants of size dimensions

with fractures and notable chips to enamels

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Rare Princely House Order, II Class Cross in Gold, c. 1900 Archive unmarked measuring 16 mm (w)(Frstlich Lippischer Hausorden Ehrenkreuz II. Klasse in Gold). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Leopold III of Lippe Detmold and Prince Adolf I Georg of Schaumburg Lippe. (1890 1918 issue). Constructed of 18K Gold with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms situated within a Gold frame, the obverse overlaid by a central Gold right pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central white enameled medallion inset