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All medals and badges are reproductions. They are created for the historian and collector to display and recall the history behind the displayed item and should not be worn except by those who have earned them We are closing out these medals. Once they are gone, that's it!
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MDL014
Waterloo (1815) Medal. $24
MDL001 Victoria
Cross. Instituted in 1856, it was awarded
for the first time in 1857 to Sixty-Two heroes of the Crimean War.
Until 1942 all Victoria Crosses were cast from a Russian cannon
barrel captured at Sebastopol. Best known incident concerning the
award is the engagement at Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War of 1879
when one officer and six others of the South Wales Borderers (24th
of foot) received the award. $25
MDL036A Croix de Guerre, 1914 $23
MDL036B Croix
de Guerre, 1939 $23
MDL016 Marine
Corps Brevet Medal Authorized in 1921
and now obsolete, this medal was awarded to all Marine Corps members
holding Brevet Commissions for Bravery. One of the rarest of medals,
it was awarded to only twenty-three officers for services during the
Civil War, Spanish American War, Philippine Insurrection and
the Boxer Rebellion. $29
One left.
MDL005
Southern Cross of Honor. Bronze finish with
coat attachment. The United Daughters of the Confederacy presented
this medal to Confederate Veterans in 1898. $21
MDL010
Civil War Campaign Medal. Army.
Authorized in 1907 and awarded for service in the Regular or
Volunteer Army or in the Militia in the service of the United States
during the Civil War. The obverse features a bust of Abraham
Lincoln, with the legend, "With Malice Toward None, With Charity For
All." $41
One left.
MDL030 Pour le Merite (The
Blue Max) $45
Enameled on both sides and supplied with a neck ribbon. Note that
the ribbon was never attached "around" the neck but rather the ends
of the ribbon were attached by a button and loop under the collar or
other such similar means.
One left.
The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kruez)
The Iron Cross was instituted by Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm III on March 10, 1813 for “valor in war with the enemy.” The design of the cross has been revised for the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the First World War, by Hitler on September 1, 1939 and most recently by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Iron Cross was awarded in two grades: the second class is a two-sided medal worn on a ribbon (black and white until 1939, then red-white-black) while the first class is single-sided with a pin on the reverse.
The Iron Cross was awarded for bravery in combat. It was necessary to have been awarded the second class to be eligible for the first class. During the Third Reich, higher classes of the Order of the Iron Cross were created: The War Order of the German Cross (a breast star) and the Knight’s Crosses with various suspensions that included the Oak Leaves with swords in gold with diamonds.
During the Second World War, the second class Iron Cross was worn only on parade dress uniforms, with the ribbon alone worn on field tunics. The first class Cross was worn on or below the left breast pocket of all uniform tunics.