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 48 mm x 141 mm)

48 mm x 141 mm)

They also used the Ostlegion rank patches rather than German forms

(Winterhilfswerk Abzeichen)

United Nations Service Medal for Korea: in bronze gilt

measuring 16 mm (w) x 25

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 48 mm x 141 mm)(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