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 and very attractive star

and very attractive star

Lippe-Detmold

19 from silver and 31 from silvered bronze

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

presenting typical order’s Arab characters

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 and very attractive star(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