Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type Archive on pin in blue box

on pin in blue box of issue

large contact mark

In bronzed metal (magnetic) and red

James Nugent Gape and Kenneth Henry Surtees Gape

Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type Archive on pin in blue box(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