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LOT 2547
German Badge, Medal and Other Item Group
MID-LATE 20TH CENTURY A.D.
1/2 - 14 1/2 in. (118 grams total, 1.4-37 cm).
Including WW1 Saxony Friedrich August Medal Silver FA Medaille; on watch chain with black enamelled cross marked '1914'; Crimean War Society pin badge; Red Cross service badge with ribbon; reproduction Blue Max 'Pour Le Merite' WW1 Medal; and other items. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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