Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type Auction Archive slight chip in the enamels

slight chip in the enamels

stating that he had no previous military service (another discrepancy)

Buckle exhibits light contact marks

1946) was a Germany flying ace in World War I

Footnote: The 103rd Regiment

Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type Auction Archive slight chip in the enamels(Militrverdienstmedaille, 2. Prgung). Issued 1915. A round bronze medal; the obverse inscribed with the crowned royal monogram of Paul Alexander Leopold, circumscribed dem Militair Verdienste, with an open ended oak wreath and crossed swords at the bottom; the reverse depicting a Lippian Rose within an open ended laurel wreath; on a loop for suspension from a period original ribbon; measuring 36. 27 mm in diameter; weighing 21. 1 grams; in overall