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Charles-Antoine Lemaire: L'Illustration horticole – journal spécial des serres et des jardins, vol. 41, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1894, p. 194. online
"Rote Kreuz-Medaille", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), Berlin, 1895, p. 268 – via hathitrust.org{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
heraldica.org
Heraldica – British Royalty Cadency. In 1917, the escutcheon was dropped by royal warrant from George V. Of course Victoria had died in 1901 and the arms had not been used by her since her marriage to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, later German Emperor Friedrich III.