Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Newly Listed royal blue silk lining on

royal blue silk lining on the inside lid and medal bed

In its leather jeweler's folder

The reverse presents with a catch for a horizontal pinback and NSDAP member number “13875”

1944 and launched by Consolidated Steel Corporation of Orange

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Newly Listed royal blue silk lining on(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