1849 Baden Campaign Medal Hold Cross measures: Width 33

Cross measures: Width 33

mounted on a folded ribbon

early fine quality in bronzed tombac

group of eight awarded to Captain J

bronze gilt with an overlaying silver ribbon banner

1849 Baden Campaign Medal Hold Cross measures: Width 331849 Baden Campaign Medal Bronze, 31 mm, integral suspension with original ribbon, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: This medal was instituted by Grand Duke Leopold on August 9, 1849 and awarded to "all those who participated reproachlessly in the recent 1849 campaign against the insurgents". Baden, though increasingly prosperous, was not immune to the revolutionary fervour that swept Europe in 1848 1849. Armed insurrection broke out in