Orders, Decorations and Medals

Germany, Prussia, A Franco-Prussian War pair awarded to 1st Lieutenant Max Hartmann, comprising Iron Cross 1870, 2nd class, contained in an old frame attractively mounted with a portrait photograph, in uniform wearing both medals, surrounded by a wreath of dried laurel leaves, gilt-embellished border and ‘Feldzug, 1870-71’; Franco-Prussian War Medal 1870-71, also mounted in an old frame with similar portrait photograph by M. Possenbacher, München, the reverse annotated with an old inscription in ink which translates ‘1st Lieutenant Max Hartmann, in Sugemaur, Summer 1871’, a scarce contemporary display, very fine (2) £150-200