Westphalia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Phillip Of The Lion Of Limburg In Gold, Knight’s Cross, C.1840 Newly Listed Long Island

Long Island

and Order of Academic Palms

Commander's Neck Cross - In bronze gilt and enamels

Footnote: This medal is a copy of Heinrich Mueller's Series

maker marked Meissner & Buch

Westphalia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Phillip Of The Lion Of Limburg In Gold, Knight’s Cross, C.1840 Newly Listed Long Island(Orden Sankt Phillipps zum Lwen). Instituted in 1700 by the Counts of Limburg Stirum. A finely made and early award, in Gold, featuring a white enameled Maltese cross with ball finials, with fine quality green enameled laurel wreaths in each quadrant, obverse centre bearing the Lion of Limburg, circumscribed Beneficencia Et Virtute (With the Benefit of Virtue) in Gold lettering, the arms of the cross are inscribed with the letters HSCW for Henricus,