Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Princely Leopold Order, III Class Cross, C. 1910 Auction Archive He was later acknowledged as

He was later acknowledged as having been married

presenting minor fractured edge on the agate cameo

suspended from a silver starburst with face in the center and horizontal bar on reverse for ribbon attachment

with loop overhanging the tan Waffenfarbe cloth backer

marked “FLL” for Friedrich Linden Lüdenscheid

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Princely Leopold Order, III Class Cross, C. 1910 Auction Archive He was later acknowledged as(Leopold Orden). Instituted 1869 by Prince Leopold IV. Type II (1910 1916). A silver Maltese cross with purple enamelled arms and ball finials, between each arm is a large silver monogrammed L, the obverse medallion presents a light pink enamelled rose with five petals on a white enamelled field, surrounded by a silver ring inscribed FUR VERDIENST (For Merit), a decorative silver petal sits in the knee of the 12 oclock arm, the reverse bears a single