Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Archive with a textured green exterior

with a textured green exterior cover and space on the inside for the recipient name and award bestowal date (both blank)

Mounted as originally worn Serbian style

while an additional band of green piping trims the outer edge of the crown

stitched at the ends

(Preußischer Roter-Adler-Orden

Lippe, Principality. A Military Merit Medal Archive with a textured green exterior(Militr Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern). Instituted 16 May 1832 by Prince Paul Alexander Leopold. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a period replacement ribbon, the obverse bearing a crowned monogram of Prince Paul Alexander Leopold, circumscribed by an inscription of DEM MILITAIR VERDIENST (TO MILITARY MERIT), situated within a circular oak leaf wreath overlaid by crossed swords, the reverse bearing a central