Braunschweig, Dukedom. A House Order Of Henry The Lion, 2Nd Class Knight, C.1910 Buy Now showing light surface wear/runner marks

showing light surface wear/runner marks

the reverse inscribed “Das Dankbare Deutschland zur Erinnerung an den Weltkrieg” (Thankful Germany in commemoration of the war)

maker marked "Toye & Co London

Another metaphor is that caterpillars have to climb out of their cocoons to escape

The reverse center of the Pickelhaube has a vertical

Braunschweig, Dukedom. A House Order Of Henry The Lion, 2Nd Class Knight, C.1910 Buy Now showing light surface wear/runner marks(Hausorden Ritterkreuz 2. Klasse). Issued 1877 1918. A silver Maltese cross with ball finals and light blue enameled arms, with a crowned cipher of Wilhelm between each arm of the cross; the obverse with a central red enameled medallion depicting a Hanoverian horse in front of a white column; the reverse inscribed IM MOTA FIDES, and dated 1734; the top of the cross with a Hanoverian lion, partially enameled crown, and enameled laurel stems; on a loop