Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Prussian Iron Cross 1870 group of four

Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, 2nd Class; Campaign Medal 1870-71, no clasp, combatant’s; Hohenzollern Medal 1848-49; Landwehr L.S. Cross, 1st Class, for 20 years, silver and gilt metal, mounted German style, good very fine (4) £200-240

A note with the lot states: ‘The medal for 1848-9 was awarded to those Prussian units which took part in the suppression of uprisings, of which there were a number throughout Germany’.