The Principality of Lippe.

[ChrisKelly]

[ChrisKelly]

Award figures:

The War Merit Cross:

Created on 8 December 1914.

18,374 on the combatant's ribbon.

1,116 on the non-combatant's ribbon.

 

Sources:

http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/lippe-detmold.htm

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Merit_Cross_(Lippe)

 

Images:

https://globalwarmuseum.com/produkt/bar-wwi-with-iron-cross-second-class-lippe-detmold-cross-war-merit-1914-leopold-iv-and-the-hindenburg-cross/

 

Edited Thursday at 05:35 by ChrisKelly

[landsknechte]

Here's a ribbon bar with the non-combatant version:

 

 

[pinpon590]

Hi !

 

Nice medals and order in Detmold principality !

 

Here are mine :

 

 

😍

[ChrisKelly]

Postcard from my collection:

 

[ChrisKelly]

From the now apparently defunct Russian web-site, "antique-photos.com":

 

[VtwinVince]

Another one of my favourites.

[ChrisKelly]

Further postcards in my collection:

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 02:59 by ChrisKelly

[ChrisKelly]

Stabschef-Reichsleiter der SA Viktor Lutze wears the rare steckkreuz from Lippe for First World War service:

Edited Saturday at 04:41 by ChrisKelly

[Megan]

Recommended reference site: http://www.hausorden.de/