Baden, Grand Duchy. A Commemorative Cross for Voluntary War Aid 1870/71 Buy Now dated 18 May 1930

dated 18 May 1930

maker mark on bottom of six o’clock cross arm for RESCH

unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Friedrich Linden

Juncker” and “Ges

Iron Cross First Class 1914 -

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Commemorative Cross for Voluntary War Aid 1870/71 Buy Now dated 18 May 1930(Erinnerungskreuz fr freiwillige Hilfsttigkeit 1870 71). Instituted 25 June 1871 by Grand Duke Friedrich. (1871 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte the obverse bearing a central ribbed Geneva Cross, flanked by dates 1870 1871, situated above a Baden coat of arms, topped by a royal crown, the reverse bearing a central raised monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich, unmarked,