Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Medal For Non-Combatants Auction Archive Jubilee Medal for the 40th

Jubilee Medal for the 40th Year Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1945-1985

with a 23 mm wide black cotton sweatband

maker marked “Albert Ihne

bright red dimpled exterior

The left end of the belt is folded over and stitched into place

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Medal For Non-Combatants Auction Archive Jubilee Medal for the 40th(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