Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Cross Of Honour, Ii Class, With Oak Leaves And Swords, C.1918 GTRexclude a 1939 NSBO Gotha meeting

a 1939 NSBO Gotha meeting badge

Star measures 95 x 92mm

in silver gilt and white enamels

After a series of hospitalizations

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Cross Of Honour, Ii Class, With Oak Leaves And Swords, C.1918 GTRexclude a 1939 NSBO Gotha meeting(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