Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A House Order Grand Cross Breast Star With Swords, C.1914 Auction with an reinforcing patch sewn

with an reinforcing patch sewn in place on the underside

Strecker took over his father’s woodworking business

but otherwise near very fine condition

all professionally and neatly stored inside a binder

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A House Order Grand Cross Breast Star With Swords, C.1914 Auction with an reinforcing patch sewn(Frstlich Lippischer Hausorden, Bruststern zum Grokreuz mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Paul Friedrich Ernst Leopold of Lippe Detmold and Prince Adolf Georg of Schaumburg Lippe. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of silver with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a red enameled Lippe rose, within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt