This is the Odd Ribbon Bar previously described.
Notice that the EK device is upside down.
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Notice that the EK device is upside down.
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EK - Close up
A close up of the EK device -
Group 2
Top one is the Doctors bar I mentioned earlier
Bottom is a favorite. . . Two non-combat and one combat gallantry award.Comment
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Group 3
These bars should have a Hindenburg Cross but for some reason do not.Comment
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A close-up of the long service award.
It's kinda small but it's a '50'Comment
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Group 4
I like the Albert the Bear on the top bar
The two on the bottom are to the same guy. No name though.Comment
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Group 5
Only one more to go after thisComment
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Group 6
These two I got from a friend in Germany who browses flea markets.
Is it normal for the stripes on the bottom ribbon to be off center?
Thanx for looking !
More laterLast edited by David S; 12-01-2002, 03:18 PM.Comment
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1st one is EXCEPTIONALLY weird, David. NONE of those devices belong on there, and the mounting precedence is bizarre. can you show us the back? It looks like the Worst Sort of 1920s "anything goes" jumble. The back may help out, before we get back to the Twilight Zone front!!!
Group 3-- top and bottom missing WWI HCX there is no "reason" for. The center one, however...
KVK2= civilian, Generic Oldenburg Ribbon= used on MANY awards, here probably either their Lifesaving Medal or House Order of some lower grade, Third Reich 50 for that many years in same civil employment (I've played with this little beauty and scanned its device x500% for the Next Update of the Ribbon Bar Article- that was when it belonged to Stogie-Rick. Now it's yours-- if you would permit?), then a WW1 noncombatant Friedrich August Cross, and finally probably a Reserve-Landwehr long service brooch. All of which = this guy was middle aged for WW1, served at home as a civilian, and as an old age pensioner was still pluggin' away in Oldenburg at whatever his trade was!
Group 5: top one-- wowee! Middle one (I've fondled that one too-- my pawprints are allll over it
), bottom one-- 
what kind of backing? That one has some potential for tracing.
Tracing? Did I say tracing? Did anybody hear me mention tracing? As in-- that WEHRMACHT pair? Oh my, Ricky thinks that one has a name! Back with the results!Comment
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As requested
Here is the back of the 'wierd' one.
I left the backs off unless requested.Comment
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Backing Group 5 on the bottomComment
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hy david,
a question about the first bar, what stand on the oakleave and for what is the crown on the china-remembernace medal added?
in totall a realy nice collections with more than one high-score
thanks for showing christianComment
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OK, I'm stymied on the Wehrmacht pair, because the @$&**# moved his Baden and Württemberg Orders on each bar, so I can't tell where he was a "native" of--
if a Württemberger, that Baden would = Inf Rgt 126. But I've been through them, and all were either "25+" guys, or the one lone retread I could trace was only a "12." Of course, given lack of first names etc, no way to tell with THREE officers who had common names.
If a Badener, a number of artillery officers from a wide range of units had Baden/Wtbg/Austria combos in the Reichsheer (so "25+" officers)... which means any number of OTHER officers in NUMEROUS units could have had those two bars.
The KVK2X makes me think older officer, so he was almost certainly an "18 years total" (E) retread officer rather than a 1915 cadet. That means he was a Hauptmann in WW1, recalled as a Major (E), and would have made Oberst (E) or (S) in WW2.
If only the Württemberg award rolls were out, that could be compared with the Baden one!!!
Same sad story with the WW1 5 ribbon bar last posted-- the Red Eagle ribbon indicates a Hauptmann/Rittmeister, no doubt a Major during the war-- so the Wtbg Friedrich would have been a Knight 1st Xs (1,766 awarded) and the Saxe-Weimar White falcon ALSO a Knight 1stX-- only 154 awarded: THAT would be a snap, IF ONLY the rolls were published!
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Oh Well !
A glimmer of a maybe !
I just got two 10X bars (same guy) from Stogie-Rick, when I get them I will post them.
To Christian L - The oakleaf reads 'Weltkrieg 1914-16', and I have no idea what those crowns are doing on there. The bar is a big mystery to me !
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The Oakleaves.........
.......... are a spange used for an award of the Saxon Friedrich Auguste Medal, to a woman! if it's a real spange, which I kind of doubt a whole bunch, it would be an exceptionally rare device! I've seen exactly one real one!!Comment
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