Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Auction Archive A superb medal bar for

A superb medal bar for a recipient who served with the Afrikakorps

Supporter's Ribbon

scattered gilt wear on the head of Charles IV

constructed of silvered war metal

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

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Auction Archive A superb medal bar for(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