Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War German Iron Cross group of five

German, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked, with pin-back suspension; Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Empire, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, reverse marked ‘W. D. L.’; Prussia, Reserve Long Service Medal, Second Class, bronze; ‘Kyffäuser’ War Veterans Medal 1914-18, bronze, the last four mounted German-style style as worn, good very fine (5) £160-£200

Sold with various postcard photographs.

Attributed to the family of the wife of Master F. H. Ponting, Mercantile Marine. For Ponting’s Great War Medals, see Lot 309.