Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type Auction Archive slight chip in the enamels

slight chip in the enamels

nickel-plated hilt fittings with most of the plating remaining intact

Footnote: The 103rd Regiment

stating that he had no previous military service (another discrepancy)

Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type Auction Archive slight chip in the enamels(Militrverdienstmedaille, 2. Prgung). Issued 1915. A round bronze medal; the obverse inscribed with the crowned royal monogram of Paul Alexander Leopold, circumscribed dem Militair Verdienste, with an open ended oak wreath and crossed swords at the bottom; the reverse depicting a Lippian Rose within an open ended laurel wreath; on a loop for suspension from a period original ribbon; measuring 36. 27 mm in diameter; weighing 21. 1 grams; in overall