4th class orders of St. Vladimir with the Bow of the member of Hanseatic Legion

Rare and interesting group of awards for German officer from the time of the Napoleonic and Wars of Liberation. Unfortunately the name of the cavalier is unknown. The Hanseatic Legion was a military unit, first formed of a group of citizens from Hamburg. They had met in 1813 on the instigation of General Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn, in order to fight in the War of the Sixth Coalition. This association of volunteers was joined immediately by volunteers from Hamburg's Hanseatic sister cities Bremen and Lübeck. The Legion defended the Hanseatic cities against Davout's and Vandamme's troops until Tettenborn completed the raising of their sieges in the night of 29/30 May 1813. The Legion and the Hanseatischen Bürgergarden went with Count Tettenborn and in Mecklenburg joined the Allied northern army under Wallmoden's command, later taking part in the fighting in the area around Mecklenburg and in parts of the Duchy of Schleswig.

The members of the Legion returned to Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck on 30 June 1814, and all received the "Kriegsdenkmedaille der drei Hansestädte" /War-Medal of the three Hanseatic-League cities/ in 1815.​

Beautiful full size early specimen from 1810s.

Gold, enamel.
Width 47 mm.
Weight (with ribbon) 16 g.
Unmarked/marks unreadable.
Made by Afanasy Panov workshop https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-saint-vladimir-made-by-afanasy-panov-aop.25810/

 

Reduced size cross (highly likely made by the same Russian workshop of Afanasy Panov).

Gold, enamel.
Width 30.8 mm.
Weight (with ribbon) 7.7 g.
Unmarked.

 

War-Medal of the three Hanseatic-League cities.

Silver.
Diameter 36 mm.
Weight (with ribbon) 15.4 g.

One of 800 medals that were manufactured by Daniel Friedrich "LOOS" of Berlin. The obverse depicting three shields for Lübeck, Bremen, Hamburg, inscribed “Gott war mit uns/God was with us" the reverse inscribed “Dem Vaterländischen Kampfe 1813-1814 zum Andenken/In commemoration of the Patriotic Struggle of 1813-1814".

 

The ribbons of these three decorations are identically stitched and taken in at the edges. At some point in time They were probably mounted for commemorative purposes in a wall frame, because all of the ribbons exhibit the same puncture marks on their upper surfaces. All three were stored inside old Glogau jeweller's box.