Germany, Imperial. An 1870 Iron Cross Ii Class With Award Documents, To Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Becker Newly Listed measuring 142 mm x 89

measuring 142 mm x 89 mm

20th February 1891

the face with a circular central medallion bearing a figure of St George on horseback slaying the dragon within a ring with beaded borders bearing stylised laurel sprays and surrounded by sapphires upper and lower left and right with five pearls above and four pearls left

in blackened metal

7th Queen's Own Hussars cap badge in bi-metal

Germany, Imperial. An 1870 Iron Cross Ii Class With Award Documents, To Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Becker Newly Listed measuring 142 mm x 89(Eisernes Kreuz 1870 II. Klasse mit Verleihungsurkunden). Reinstituted 19 July 1870 by King Wilhelm I. (1870 1871 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1870, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclcok arm with an