Opinions on this medal bar?

[Vadim K]

Vet's family offered me a first swipe at this before they put it on Ebay, what do you think?

[JensF.]

Very nice combination of Imperial, Weimar and Third Reich awards. Take it or I'll do!

[Vadim K]

Yup, its not a combination you see very often. Rare to see a Baltenkreuz on a medal bar too. Now if only we can arrive at a mutually satisfying price...

[stogieman]

Nice!

Yep, nice bar and hard to find that Baltic Cross in a mounted group!

[Christian L]

of cause - take it!
a really nice combo!
christian

[Klaus O.]

Vadim,

This is a very desirable medal bar and quite a scarse combination of medals of a very likely Nothern German soldier. It looks like the medals were mounted on piece by piece singurarly and then assembled together.... Am I correct in assuming this? Could you post an image of the reverse... It would be nice to see if the color of the backing... if it was black or dark blue, then the wearer of the bar could have served in the Navy (Kaiserliche Kriegsmarine).

Ciao,

Claudio

[Vadim K]

Here is the reverse. I am still settling the price, will let you guys know tomorrow.

[McCulloh]

Looks good to me too-especially with the Balkankreuz. I'd pay $250 for it with that. Interetsing that there's a KVK on the bar and no LS award though -post 1940 navy or IR90 recall?

[JensF.]

I think around 220 Euros would be a good price.

[Rick Research]

Ooooo!

Almost certainly a junior WW1 officer's group. Hard to say army vs navy (my inclination would be the latter) with the backing when used just to keep the tab backs from scratching. My Hamburg-America Line Commodore (search "Wiehr") has RED on the back of his. This fellow may well have been marine Artillery WW2 and maaaaaybe that is MarArt "mustard green" uniform backing.

We shall look forward to non-blurry scans!


It is quite NICE to see a medal bar version Baltic Cross. (Also note that is the "2 ring variant" Hamburg Hanseatic, the only ones of which I have encountered have all had the 3 oakleaves maker mark on the ring-- see Doug See's thread.)

[Rolf D.]

Inform us

Let us know what price you guys negotiate.

[Vadim K]

...and the bar just came to live at my house. Here is a brief picture, better pictures to follow. I just set up digital camera the wife gave me for New Year (sad, I know...), and am still playing around with it.

The ribbons are too tight so there is no way to check Rick's theory about marks on Hamburg crosses. Claudio, you were right, each ribbon was assembled individually and then they were mounted. Overall, nice clean padded bar, 100% enamel on Hamburgkreuz.