Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Province of China Footnote: The awards conferred upon

Footnote: The awards conferred upon citizens of the three founding Duchies had an oak wreath surrounding the centre medallion

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The badge presents a crowned bronze oval inscribed GARRISON BATTALION with the obverse center presenting a white metal overlay of three towers

A 1933 Duisburg-Hamborn Braune Messe badge (15-23

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Province of China Footnote: The awards conferred upon(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