Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Auction embroidered with a three-segmented silver

embroidered with a three-segmented silver aluminum wire tresse divided by machine-embroidered field-grey bars

this exceptionally rare and attributed example is in an overall extremely fine condition

A fine quality eagle in hand-embroidered bullion on black wool

and the interior retaining the original Moore

due to the particularity of the war years

Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Auction embroidered with a three-segmented silver(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