A 1914-1918 Lippe War Merit Cross Archive with 1000 individual green stitches

with 1000 individual green stitches

This resulted in an amputation "at the third proximal phalanx

Private Herbert Baker served with the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps

obverse illustrating Batavia in republican hat of 16th century wielding a sword and olive branch

In stamped silver nickel with bronze face plate affixed by two solder points

A 1914-1918 Lippe War Merit Cross Archive with 1000 individual green stitchesA 1914 1918 Lippe War Merit Cross (Kriegsverdienst Kreuz); on gilt bronze; the obverse bears a centrally placed laurel wreath encircling the Rose of Lippe, topped with a crowned cipher of Prince Leopold IV, with the lower armed bearing 1914; the reverse inscribed For Distinction During Wartime across all arms; horizontally pierced ball and loop for suspension; on correct replacement ribbon; some contact marks, but otherwise very fine condition.