Auction Catalogue

27 June 2007

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 509

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£230

A Baden Franco-Prussian War group of four

Prussia, Campaign Medal 1870-71, 3 clasps, Wörth, Strassburg, An der Lisaine; Baden, Field Service Medal, 3 clasps, 1866, 1870, 1871, slight damage to last clasp; Prussia, Centenary Medal 1897; Baden, Landwehr Long Service Bar 1877-1913, mounted German style as worn, good very fine (4) £200-240

A scarce combination of clasps for both war medals. The clasp for Wörth especially so, as the Baden Field Division was only just being deployed for the battle, when the French forces withdrew. Sold with copied article on the Baden involvement at Wörth.