Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A well-documented Bavarian group of four awarded to Unteroffizier J. Griesbacher, Bavarian Field Artillery

Germany, Bavaria, Military Merit Cross, Third Class breast badge, bronze, with crown and crossed swords suspension, unmarked; Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Bavaria, Military Long Service Medal, Third Class, for 9 Years’ service, white metal; Germany, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, reverse stamped ‘L. Nbg.’ (Christian Lauer, Nuremberg) on top arm, the first three mounted German-style as worn, the last loose, generally very fine and better (4) £240-£280

Sold together with the Bestowal Document for he Bavarian Military Merit Cross, Third Class, with crown and swords, named to Unteroffizier Johann Griesbacher, and dated 20 September 1918; Bestowal Document for the Iron Cross Second Class, named to Kanonier Johann Griesbacher, 2 Batterie, Bayerische Ersatz-Feld-Artillerie Regiment, and dated 18 August 1917; Bestowal Document for the Cross of Honour, named to Johann Griesbacher, and dated 22 May 1935, the tree bestowal documents all punched, folded, and in slightly distressed condition; the recipient’s Militärpaß, with hand-written entries from 1913 to 1919; and a pair of wartime photographs, both believed to feature the recipient with comrades.