Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Prussian Iron Cross 1870 group of six

Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, 2nd Class, with 25th Anniversary oak leaves; General Decoration of Merit, 2nd Class, silver; Campaign Medal 1870-71, 3 clasps, Sedan, Beaumont, Paris; Campaign Medal 1864, combatant’s, suspension repaired; Centenary Medal 1897; Landwehr Long Service Bar, 2nd Class, enamelled, ring suspension, mounted German style as worn, good very fine (6) £420-480

A note with the lot states: ‘Service in 1870-71 has to have been in IV Corps. The only unit in this Corps also in 1864 (War against Denmark) is Westphalian Dragoon Regiment No.7’.