Prussia, Kingdom. A Rare Order of the Red Eagle, Civil Division, II Class Breast Star consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Lippe-Detmold

Lippe-Detmold

A small and untouched award grouping to Waffen-SS Unterscharführer Hans Schnippen

but later resigned

presenting typical order’s Arab characters

worn on a full length sash with large rosette

Prussia, Kingdom. A Rare Order of the Red Eagle, Civil Division, II Class Breast Star consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Lippe-Detmold(Roter Adler Orden Bruststern II. Klasse). Instituted 12 June 1792 by King Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1858 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with Gold and enamels, the obverse consisting of a four pointed radiant starburst, overlaid by a Cross Patte with white enameled arms situated within a Gold frame, bearing a central white enameled medallion defaced by a hand painted Prussian eagle, in turn situated within a circular white enameled medallion bearing