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    HoHoHo, It's a HHO... X Ribbon, That Is

    Santa's helper Stogie-Rick stopped by today for a quorum meeting with our fellow Moderator Being from out in the Rockies, and delivered this early Christmas present.

    Long, long have I sought the One Ring... no, no... I mean, uh...

    the full size tunic buttonhole ribbon with Prussian Hohenzollern House Order with Swords device. These were worn during the First World War, usually when a ribbon bar was NOT being worn, as "Highest Prussian Award Only" without the EK2 ribbon, and well into WW2 some officers like von Manstein could be found wearing it from their second tunic buttonhole as well.
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    Though I scanned the ribbon above straiht up and down, it was, of course, worn at a diagonal from out of the tunic buttonhole. There, it could be worn either as above with the device edges parallel to the sides of the ribbon, or with the device upright on the ribbon as here:
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      #3
      Like a ribbon bar, the device has central split prongs, but there are two distinct prong holes here for more secure positioning with the prongs flattened under the ribbon. This is still a weak construction, and I'd have had wire pins at each of the 4 sword ends.
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        Rittmeister Beeckmann models this in 1929. Note that a second ribbon for the EK2 is NEVER worn from the buttonhole with it in this "reduced awards" style, though ALWAYS together on a ribbon bar.
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          The only award Beeckmann was NOT wearing was his EK2, so in his case this is less about "reducing" awards to highest only, as in making a "maximum flashy" presentation of his HHOX!
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            #6
            I saw some of them in the last updates from Niemann but all of them were gone...

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              Mine was the one on the right in his scan.

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                #8
                Rick could I be so rude as to ask how much one of these would set you back?

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                  #9
                  For a RIBBON BAR with this enormous device, see "Ruined By Raeder"--

                  http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=39375

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