Lot Archive

Lot

№ 426

.

12 June 1991

Estimate: £400–£500

A most unusual League of Mercy group awarded to Hauptmann Peter Heine, late 100 Royal Saxon Life Grenadier Regiment.

Saxony, MILITARY MEDAL OF ORDER OF ST. HENRY, silver; Saxony, OFFICER'S LANDWEHR DECORATION, 1st Class for 20 years service; FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR MEDAL, 4 bars, Paris, Sedan, Beaumont, Gravelotte-St. Privat; Prussia, CENTENARY MEDAL 1897; Saxony, ORDER OF ERNESTINE, Knight's Cross with swords, silver and enamels, damage to one point; ORDER OF THE LEAGUE OF MERCY, silver gilt and enamel; Turkey, ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE, 3rd Class neck badge, tip of one point broken and some chipping to enamel on crescent, first six mounted in the German style; together with a bronze gilt Saxon helmet plate, generally very fine (8)

Hauptmann der Landwehr Peter Heine, retired 22.6.1890, late Royal Saxon Life Grenadier Regt. No. 100. Verified Saxon Army List 1908, League of Mercy Records (Award No. 33) Dated 7. 7. 1909.