Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, 2nd Class, c.1917 certificate_of_authenticity Abolished in 1970

Abolished in 1970

58 mm (w) x 14

"" The fifteen founding members established a tradition of perpetuating the memory of those brave and hardy men and women who bore the burden of establishing the colonies of America and laid the foundations upon which the Republic of the United States of America now stands

There are full-length fullers on both sides

while two large-scale public events

Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, 2nd Class, c.1917 certificate_of_authenticity Abolished in 1970(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