Hesse-Kassel, Landgraviate. A War Commemorative Medal For Combatants Of 1814-1815 Archive with a paper instruction label

with a paper instruction label glued on the inside of the lid entitled "Anweisung zum Aussuchen der Doppelarmigen Brille

Shot Down 1943 over Croatia

A brief synopsis of the book's contents appears on the dust jacket: "This book will be of interest not only to the collector of pepperbox firearms but to the entire fraternity of gun "Bugs"

and measures 139 mm x 199 mm

Instituted in 1857 (in bronze

Hesse-Kassel, Landgraviate. A War Commemorative Medal For Combatants Of 1814-1815 Archive with a paper instruction label(Kriegsdenkmnze 1814 1815 Kmpfer). Instituted 14 March 1821 by Landgrave Wilhelm II. (1821 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crowned and wreathed monogram of Landgrave Wilhelm II, above an inscription of SEINEN TAPFERN HESSEN 1821 (HIS BRAVE HESSIANS 1821), the reverse bearing an Iron Cross with central wreathed dates 1814 1815, circumscribed by an inscription of GOTT BRACH DES