Eight Ribbon Bar

[RonR]

For your review.


Really getting some lessons in the area.


Many thanks!


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[Eric Gaumann]

IMO this bar is made up as well. He (or she) could have been awarded the last 5 medals in that short time frame of 1947 - 1965+ but to get those top 3 awards (assuming that's an OoG ribbon in the third spot) would be pretty amazing, albeit not completely impossible.
Or, if the 3rd ribbon is just a VoG the other 2 award ribbons make a bit more sense as LS awards. But if so where's the RS ribbon? And where are the Defense of, Lib of and Capture of medal ribbons.
Again, not impossible but to me improbable.
And finally the lack of wear on an item from that time frame is telling as well.

[Marcel Banziger]

To me personally, like the other ribbon bar as well, this one is also probably a put together bar by a collector. As Eric already mentioned, there's no wear at all which only makes this one even more suspicious. Not one I would like to have in my collection.

[Eric Gaumann]

I was gonna post some images of my ribbon bars but after a quick search I found this thread by the immortal Rick Research that provides some awesome images and a ton of info: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=15062

[Tretov]

IMO this bar is made up as well. He (or she) could have been awarded the last 5 medals in that short time frame of 1947 - 1965+ but to get those top 3 awards (assuming that's an OoG ribbon in the third spot) would be pretty amazing, albeit not completely impossible.
Or, if the 3rd ribbon is just a VoG the other 2 award ribbons make a bit more sense as LS awards. But if so where's the RS ribbon? And where are the Defense of, Lib of and Capture of medal ribbons.
Again, not impossible but to me improbable.
And finally the lack of wear on an item from that time frame is telling as well.

To get this working, the owner must have entered the armed forces in 1944 or 1945, earned the Victory over Germany in 1945 (it is not for Order of Glory III, then it should have been next to the Red Banner) then earned the combat service for 10 years of service in 1954 or 1955, 15 years of service in the late 1950s and 20 years of service in early 1960s. Red Banner is either for wartime action or a thank-you award in the late 1960s, if such were given for example at 25 years of service or at the 1967 50th anniversary of the revolution.

More likely is however that this bar is made up, it takes less than 20 minutes to make one from spare parts. I wouldn't keep this in a collection either as it looks too new.

[uscob]

Copy that. For an Order of Glory the Ribbon has to be in the middle place.
The Medal for Meritorious Service in Battle comes 5 Places after the OoG in Order of Precidence.