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

№ 523

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27 June 2007

Hammer Price:
£210

A Franco-Prussian War group of four

Prussia, General Decoration of Merit, 2nd Class, silver; War Medal 1870-71, 7 clasps, Wörth, Sedan, Loigny-Poupry, Orléans, Beaugency-Cravant, Le Mans, Weissenburg, the clasps mounted over the ribbons of the first three medals; Centenary Medal 1897; Landwehr Long Service Bar, enamelled, ring suspension, mounted German style as worn, very fine and better (4) £180-220

A note with the lot states: ‘Possibly the recipient served in Hessian Hussar Regt. No.13, or Hessian Field Artillery Regt. No.11’.