Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Prussian Iron Cross 1870 group of five

Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, 2nd Class; Campaign Cross 1866, for Könniggrätz; War Medal 1870-71, 1 clasp, Vionville-Mars-La Tour; Centenary Medal 1897, mounted German style as worn; Landwehr Long Service Bar, 2nd Class, pin-backed, last rusted and with torn ribbon, generally very fine (5) £280-320

A note with the lot states: ‘Iron Cross likely to have been awarded for Vionville-Mars-La Tour and for the recipient to have been a casualty at this battle. The most likely units all in the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Garde Korps’.