Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Prussian Iron Cross 1870 group of seven

Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, 2nd Class, with 25th Anniversary oak leaves; Order of the Red Eagle, 4th type, 4th Class breast badge with swords, silver and enamel, with plain arms (1854-79); Life Saving Medal, ‘Koenig’ type, silver, edge bruise; Campaign Medal 1870-71, 1 clasp, Paris; Campaign Cross 1866, for Könniggrätz; Centenary Medal 1897; Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Military Merit Cross 1870, mounted German style as worn, good very fine (7) £750-850

A note with the lot states: ‘It is possible that the recipient served in VI Corps in 1870-71’.