Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords United Republic of Order of Elisabeth

Order of Elisabeth

gilt wear on the edges and tips of the rays

the six o’clock arm maker marked “W” for the firm of Wagner & Sohn

measuring 16 mm (w) x 23

Instituted on 22 October 1849

Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords United Republic of Order of Elisabeth(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