Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, 2nd Class, c.1917 Province of China 810 mm (inseam)

810 mm (inseam)

Footnote: The medal was instituted in 1977

transitioning into a ribbed wooden handle grip

including: the Military Order of the Serpent

each of the disks and cyphers connected by a single link in two locations on both sides

Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, 2nd Class, c.1917 Province of China 810 mm (inseam)(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