Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords GTRexclude with the left side finished

with the left side finished in a Prussian black and white colour scheme

Being a fanatical anti-Semite

(Reichsparteitag Abzeichen)

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

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Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords GTRexclude with the left side finished(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