on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon pinned with crossed sword device
The large brass spike protruding from the body of the helmet houses a holder for the red horsehair plume
Iron Cross Second Class that has been privately altered into First Class of the Award
accompanied by a secret documents stamp
and you likewise to observe and execute the General Printed Instructions and such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from us or any other your Superior Officers for His Majesty's Service
United States. A Brooklyn, New York Civil War Service Medal, 1866 certificate_of_authenticity on loop for suspension withIn bronze, presenting soldier on the obverse within an oval beaded ring with the inscription PRESENTED BY THE CITY OF BROOKLYN TO ONE OF ITS VETERANS 1866, the reverse features a female figure holding a Roman fasces with a scroll above inscribed EEN DRACHT MACKT MAGHT (In Unity there is Strength), surmounted by a helmet, measures 33. 53 mm (w) x 50. 95 mm (h), worn on an aged but incorrect ribbon, complete with bronze clasp with horizontal pin on