Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, 2nd Class, c.1917 Hold Footnote: The North German Lloyd

Footnote: The North German Lloyd (Norddeutscher Lloyd = NDL) was a German shipping company

marked with an image of the clasp on the lid

measuring 105 mm (w) x 48 mm (h)

a Heer sniper recognized for 33 confirmed kills by the end of 1933

Of multi-piece construction oval gilded tombac with a silvered tombac globe

Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, 2nd Class, c.1917 Hold Footnote: The North German Lloyd(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