Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Leopold Order, Ii Class Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive illustrating three bullion seagulls above

illustrating three bullion seagulls above crossed bullion branches

in action at Pretoria and at Diamond Hill in June 1900 and in operations in Transvaal in September 1900

(This is a first time we have encountered a cross with such engraving on reverse)

10 mm (w) x 59

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Leopold Order, Ii Class Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive illustrating three bullion seagulls above(Leopold Orden). Instituted Prince Leopold IV in 1906. Type III (1916 1918). In silver, a Maltese cross with purple enamelled arms and ball finials, between each arm is a large silver monogrammed L, the obverse medallion presents a large silver rose with five petals and in the center sits a handpainted blue swallow standing on a golden star on a red enamelled field, surrounded by the inscription FIDELITER SINE TIMORE 1906 (Loyal Without Fear), the