Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Medal For Non-Combatants Newly Listed Privately purchased and subsequently of

Privately purchased and subsequently of higher qualit than the issued shako

weighing total approximately  7

unmarked on the ricasso as per the style on Leader's Daggers

addressed to his brother

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Medal For Non-Combatants Newly Listed Privately purchased and subsequently of(Kriegs Ehrenmedaille fr Nichtkmpfer). Instituted 25 October 1915 by Prince Leopold IV. (1915 1921 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original non combatants ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Cross Patte with pebbled arms, overlaid by a central wreathed Lippe rose, topped by the monogram of Prince Leopold IV and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of TREUE BEWHRT IN