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

For these reasons

Order of Elisabeth

who had been raised by his mother and his stepfather Lorenzo Scatena

gilt wear on the edges and tips of the rays

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