Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Auction Archive Stitched onto the peak of

Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia consisting of a dark green rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered golden-yellow Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

with loss of finish and material fatigue evident to the medal and case

59 mm x 89 mm

He later served with the Canadian Army Pay Corps

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Auction Archive Stitched onto the peak of(Kriegsverdienstkreuz Steckkreuz). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central Lippe rose situated within a circular laurel wreath, above an institution date of 1914 and below a monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback