Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords GTRexclude Austria: Marian Cross (silver and

Austria: Marian Cross (silver and enamels

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served as Chief Archivist for Canada in Europe (1905-1938) and published a number of books on the history of New France

A First War 3rd Army Commemorative Cross

Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords GTRexclude Austria: Marian Cross (silver and(Frstlich Lippischer Hausorden Ehrenkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Leopold II of Lippe and Prince Adolf Georg I of Schaumburg Lippe. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, with swords through the centrepiece, the obverse with a central white enameled disc bearing a red enameled Lippe rose, within a blue enameled ring