Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Winterhilfswerk Abzeichen)

(Winterhilfswerk Abzeichen)

measures 107

48 mm x 141 mm)

when he enlisted as a Hospital Apprentice Second Class (02866681) with the United States Navy

obverse with lacquered arms

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Winterhilfswerk Abzeichen)(Kriegsverdienstkreuz Steckkreuz). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central Lippe rose situated within a circular laurel wreath, above an institution date of 1914 and below a monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback