Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Buy Now the cluster having been lost

the cluster having been lost to time

measuring 50 mm (w) x 108 mm (h))

meaning each collar was assigned to one specific person

The SS insignia exhibits light contact and wear

circumscribed “Dem Deutschen Soldaten ist nichts unmöglich” (Nothing is impossible for the German soldier)

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Buy Now the cluster having been lost(Kriegsverdienstkreuz fr Nichtkmpfer). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central wreathed Lippe rose, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing the monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of