Hello, This is my first real post on this board... I?ll show you the rarest highlight of my collection. Hope you enjoy it Order for Art and Science 2.class with oakleaves Principal Lippe-Detmold(Lippische Rose fuer Kunst und Wissenschaft 2.Klasse mit Eichenlaub Fuerstentum Lippe-Detmold) It was spent 9.June 1898 by Earl Ernst Casimir (Graf ERNST Casimir Friedrich Karl Eberhard Graf und Edler Herr zur Lippe-Biesterfeld 9.June 1842 - 26.September.1904) This order is made of silver, the thorns, the relief and the center on the back are painted golden. The white-red-white ribbon is the original ( This piece was given to a woman! ) There were only 43 awards of this class , five of them came from the principal Lippe. This piece is an garanteed original (i?ve several pictures from other original orders to compare with) The relief in the middle and the letters around this relief indentify an original, if it doesn?t look exactely like mine, it is a copy! Actually i?m searching for the name of the woman, who awarded this order. At the end of this month i?ll visit a archive in Detmold ? they told me, that there i can find a list of all names... Greetings Solomon P.S. If you find any mistakes in my english, please correct it