A 1914-1918 Lippe War Merit Cross Archive on dark brown doe skin

on dark brown doe skin

with all three winning their commissions

supporting a brass chain link chin strap backed with a black leather and corduroy strap

With Bismarck slowed by the damage

Group of Eight Studio Photograph (sepia-toned

A 1914-1918 Lippe War Merit Cross Archive on dark brown doe skinA 1914 1918 Lippe War Merit Cross (Kriegsverdienst Kreuz); on gilt bronze; the obverse bears a centrally placed laurel wreath encircling the Rose of Lippe, topped with a crowned cipher of Prince Leopold IV, with the lower armed bearing 1914; the reverse inscribed For Distinction During Wartime across all arms; horizontally pierced ball and loop for suspension; on correct replacement ribbon; some contact marks, but otherwise very fine condition.