Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords certificate_of_authenticity ensures a snug fit to

ensures a snug fit to the wearer's head

maker marked “AK”

native of southwestern Ontario

when he purged Ana Pauker and the Muscovite faction from the party

Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, II Class Cross with Swords certificate_of_authenticity ensures a snug fit to(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