Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Newly Listed Make shift covers had to

Make shift covers had to be placed over engines to complete engine work during the rainy season

In its leather jeweler's folder

A pair of medals

A Dutch souvenir postcard presenting photographs of The Hague

royal blue silk lining on the inside lid and medal bed

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants Newly Listed Make shift covers had to(Kriegsverdienstkreuz fr Nichtkmpfer). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central wreathed Lippe rose, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing the monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of