Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Leopold Order, Ii Class Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive the front waist bears four

the front waist bears four black four-holed flat buttons marked “JOHN SCOTT & CO PRETORIA”

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

illustrating three bullion seagulls above crossed bullion branches

and his birthplace Southern Tyrol

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

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Leopold Order, Ii Class Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive the front waist bears four(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