The Order was instituted to reward the military personnel who defeated Napoleon’s army in the Peninsular War (1807-1814)
An exquisite qualift manufacture example of a 1908-1918 issue Order of Henry the Lion Officer’s Cross (Herzoglich Braunschweigischer Orden Heinrichs des Löwen)
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New York and at Columbia University in New York City
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By Friedrich Orth United Republic of The Order was instituted to(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a central U Boat on a hollow background, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Friedrich Orth, Vienna, measuring 48. 76 mm (w) x 39. 77