Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Auction Archive Twenty-eight months later and the

Twenty-eight months later and the war having concluded

with the majority of the backing still intact - marked with the maker logo of “Hermann Schmuck & Cie” on the reverse

suspended from a blackened leather cord decorated with multiple rows of silver aluminum wire tresses similarly interspersed with blue threading

4 Canadian General Hospital at Basingstoke on October 22nd for additional treatment

Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Auction Archive Twenty-eight months later and the(Militr Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern). Instituted 16 May 1832 by Prince Paul Alexander Leopold. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, the obverse bearing a crowned monogram of Prince Paul Alexander Leopold, circumscribed by an inscription of DEM MILITAIR VERDIENST (TO MILITARY MERIT), situated within a circular oak leaf wreath overlaid by crossed swords, the reverse bearing a central