Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Cross Of Honour, Ii Class, With Oak Leaves And Swords, C.1918 GTRexclude 5 mm x 31 mm

5 mm x 31 mm

maker marked “Haurich Dresden” on reverse

and “950” for silver content

After a series of hospitalizations

44 mm (h) (inclusive of suspension)

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Cross Of Honour, Ii Class, With Oak Leaves And Swords, C.1918 GTRexclude 5 mm x 31 mm(Ehrenkreuz II. Klasse mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Paul Friedrich Ernst Leopold zur Lippe and Prince Adolf Georg zu Schaumburg Lippe. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse with a central white enameled medallion bearing a finely detailed red enameled Lippe rose, within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt