Prussia, Kingdom. A Rare 1870 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction It was awarded in five

It was awarded in five classes: Grand Cordon

It is entitled "DAYS AT WAR" on the inside front cover and begins with leaving from the Canadian Pacific Railway docks in Montreal aboard the S

The Zulu on Campaign

the obverse depicting a spade with a mobile swastika and two wheat stalks in a “V” formation

Commanding the Pacific station

Prussia, Kingdom. A Rare 1870 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction It was awarded in five(Eisernes Kreuz 1870 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 19 July 1870 by King Wilhelm I. (1870 1871 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon mounted on a trapezoidal bar with a black wool reverse liner and horizontal pinback, 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,