The Grand Cross is the highest Papal award given to lay men and women
measuring 24 cm (w) x 30
very rare award to a Canadian
There are holes evident on both sides at the open end of the collar where collar tabs once resided but have been lost to time
with period suspension and ribbon
United Kingdom. Pictorial History Of Swords & Bayonets United Republic of The Grand Cross is theHardcover, emerald green cloth cover, with dust jacket, the text on the spine in silver coloured ink, entitled "Pictorial History of Swords & Bayonets", by Robert J. Wilkinson Latham, copyrighted by the author in 1973, published by Ian Allan Limited of Shepperton, Surrey in 1973, printed in the United Kingdom by Morrison and Gibb Limited of London and Edinburgh, dust jacket design by Ian Allen Studio, ISBN 0 7110 0394 7. As noted on the dust jacket: