A five-piece medal bar and a field clasp, circa 1900 Prussian service award for officers (25 years), commemorative medal of Kaiser Wilhelm I 1897 and the Knight's Cross of the 2nd class of the Saxon Albrecht Order (enamel slightly chipped in places), in front the ribbons of the Order of the Red Eagle and the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown as returned awards. Red cloth on the reverse (small moth holes) and long gilded cross pin. From the same source an eight-piece field buckle with decorations from Prussia, Saxony, Saxony-Meiningen and the Ottoman Empire, gray cloth and iron cross pin on the reverse. Signs of wear and age. Condition: II

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