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
thus in good/fair condition
illustrating three bullion seagulls above crossed bullion branches
(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