World Orders and Decorations 765
Croatia, Republic, Order of the Croatian Morning Star, for Culture, breast Star, silvered with gilt centre, with Marki Marulic at centre, in fitted case of issue, with riband bar but lacking miniature award, nearly extremely fine
Romania, Socialist Republic, Order of Military Merit, Second Class breast badge, for 20 Years’ Service, silvered and enamel, with riband bar, in fitted case of issue; together with the Bestowal Document named to Lieutenant-Colonel Iulia I. Szirmai, and dated 1968, in scroll holder, good very fine
Yugoslavia, Federal People’s Republic, Order of Labour (2), First Class breast Star with Gold Wreath, silver with gilt centre; Second Class breast Star with Silver Wreath, silver with gilt hammer and sickle, retaining pins of both stamped ‘Zin-Kovnica’ (Belgrade Mint), both in cases of issue, nearly extremely fine (4)
£60-£80
Sold together with a German Third Reich badge for the German Army in Corsica, silvered base metal and enamel, unmarked, with original pin.
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Finland, Merit Medal of the Order of the White Rose, 2nd Class, silver; Medal for the campaign against the Soviet Union 1941-45; Medal of Physical Education and Sports, bronze; Mounted pair, comprising Medal for Bravery of the Order of Liberty, 1st Class silver medal for 1939, and Winter War Medal 1939-40, with Swords and Home Guard clasp on ribbon, very fine (5)
£40-£50 767
France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour (5), for the Navy, silver, reverse inscribed ‘Bono, Jules Andre, 1920’; for the Merchant Marine, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Martin, Charles Eugene, Capitaine au Long Cours 1905’; Ministry of the Interior, silver, unnamed, with wreath suspension; Ministry of Public Works, silvered, unnamed; Ministry of Public Works and Social Welfare, bronze, with wreath, the reverse inscribed ‘J. Marty’, generally very fine (5)
£60-£80 768
France, Republic, Order of the Academic Palms, Knight’s breast badge, 38mm x 27mm, silver and enamel; Medaille Militaire (7), silver-gilt and enamel, all with trophy of arms suspension, significant enamel damage throughout; French Foreign Legion Medal of National Defence, gilt, 1 clasp, Mission D’Assistance Exterieure (2); Medal of Honour for French Railway Workers, silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘Mle. M. Paris, 1943’; Medal of Honour for the French Railways (2), silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘M. Millot 1967’; gilt, the reverse inscribed ‘M. Millot 1977’; together with a number of miscellaneous mainly European medals, badges, and buttons, including an Austrian commemorative medal for the Great War; a Belgian Decoration for Industry and Agriculture; a British War Medal 1914-20 (94515 Pte. C. E . Thompson. Sea. Highrs.); an Allied Victory Medal 1914-19 (29614 Pte. J. Mutimer. Dorset. R.); and a European Union Veterans’ Medal, gilt and enamel, generally very fine and better (lot)
£60-£80 769
This type of Iron Cross was often worn by aircrew and tank crew to avoid snagging on machinery Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, of convex construction, reverse
stamped ‘KO’, screw-backed, with clutch plate, very fine £120-£160 770
A Great War German Iron Cross pair Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Empire, Cross of Honour 1914 -18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, reverse marked ‘R.V.26 Pforzheim’, mounted German-style style as worn, good very fine
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; together with a Silver Wound Badge, good very fine (4)
£70-£90 771
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, retaining pin marked ‘26’, in original embossed case of issue, extremely fine
£100-£140 772
A Second War Iron Cross attributed to M.A. Obergefreiten G. Mucke, a One-Man Torpedo Operator with K-Flotilla 364, German Kriegsmarine
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class, silver with iron centre, suspension ring marked ‘23’, mounted for display purposes along with a metal cut-out of his torpedo-craft, and plate below stamped ‘K. Flott. 364’, nearly extremely fine
£300-£400
Sold with the bestowal document for the Iron Cross, named to M.A. Obergefreiten Gerhard Mucke, dated Tromsö, 17 September 1943, and signed by Vice-Admiral Nordmann, Admiral Commanding the Norwegian Polar Coast, with traces of adhesive to reverse.
Note: The display item illustrates the early, one-man, motorised torpedo craft, which carried a larger live torpedo underneath. Once fired, the operator retuned to base in the smaller upper carrier craft. Such craft were pioneered by small battle units of the Kriegsmarine’s elite K-Force. Given the date of Mucke’s Iron Cross, and the fact that it was awarded in Tromsö, where experimentation and training for K-Boat operations were undertaken, it is likely that he was awarded the Iron Cross for his role in the dangerous early experimentation and development of the one-man torpedo, rather than for an actual operation
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Germany, Third Reich, Medal for the Spanish ‘Blue Division’ for Service on the Russian Front 1941-43, bronze, nearly extremely fine
£80-£120
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