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

the cluster having been lost to time

The children grew up in the US and Hannelore

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

stamped signature of NSFK leader

Provenance Footnote: Previously sold as Lot 94 in Andreas Theis Auction 48

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