Mexico, Ii Empire. An Order Of Guadalupe, Grand Cross For Civil Merit, C.1865 Newly Listed (Ehrenzeichen der Reichsjugendführung der HJ

(Ehrenzeichen der Reichsjugendführung der HJ für verdiente Ausländer)

and a German Ski Association (Deutscher Ski Verein) flag in the background

he departed Liverpool

56 mm (w) x 92

previously mounted

Mexico, Ii Empire. An Order Of Guadalupe, Grand Cross For Civil Merit, C.1865 Newly Listed (Ehrenzeichen der Reichsjugendführung der HJ(Orden de Guadalupe). Instituted in 1822, Restored in 1863. Type III, Crowned Eagle. 1863 1867 Issue. Of French manufacture, in silver gilt consisting of a green, white and red enameled Pate Cross with ball finials, hand chiseled rays in each quadrant, obverse centre featuring a fine handmade figure of Our Lady of Guadalupe surrounded by the inscription RELIGION INDEPENDENCIA UNION (Religion, Independency, Fraternity), reverse centre depicting the