Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Rare Leopold Order, Unissued Grand Cross Prototype, By Zimmermann Archive 277 mm x 357 mm)

277 mm x 357 mm)

Stationed in Zolochiv near Lviv (western Ukraine)

and with light bubbling in the finish visible on the reverse

Also killed the same day were three members of the Royal Canadian Air Force: R/53908 Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Rare Leopold Order, Unissued Grand Cross Prototype, By Zimmermann Archive 277 mm x 357 mm)(Leopold Orden, Groehrenkreuz Protoyp). Instituted 24 July 1906 by Prince Leopold IV. (Grand Cross issued 1910 1918). An exceptionally rare, unissued prototype of the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order, constructed of silvered with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with each arm completing in ball finials, each joined together through the quadrants by detailed silver monograms of Prince Leopold, the obverse of the arms featuring a