Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Rare Princely House Order, II Class Cross in Gold, c. 1900 Archive with fractures and notable chips

with fractures and notable chips to enamels

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

measuring 94 mm (w) (exclusive of handle) x 120 mm (h)

(SS-Verfügungstruppe Kragenspiegel)

with the right side bearing the illegible remnants of size dimensions

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Rare Princely House Order, II Class Cross in Gold, c. 1900 Archive with fractures and notable chips(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