long service awards for the medal bar

[Christian L]

here are 2 landwehrdienstauszeichnungen (could someone translate it please - i really don't know it ) from my collection.
for me, these are beautiful awards - i like them more, than the earlier type.
are they worn only in prusia or in all german states?
is the emaile cold or warm worked?
hope that i see a few more from you.
christian

[Gerd Becker]

Hi Christian,
i like these long-service-awards, too. As far as i know, this IS the early type, the medals are the later ones. And yes, other states used this kind of medal, too. At least i know 1 Saxon long-service-award of this kind.
En miniature these are beautiful, too.
My latest addition has one, too:

[Gerd Becker]

Here is another miniature:


Cheers,
Gerd

[Daniel Krause]

Hi Christian,

Your 2nd one is not Landwehr, it is the regular IX years (3rd class) long service award.
As Gerd says they were also used in other states but anyway this variant medal bar decorations are much rarer than the original brooches.

Hi Gerd,

as usual niiiice minis! Congratulations!

Best regards

Daniel

[Christian L]

thanks for correcting daniel.
here is one more big one on a bar

[Christian L]

and a small one on a chain.
the only thing which make me thinking much is the Königgrätz award.
hope someone could help, if not, hope you enjoy it anyway.
christian

[Rick Research]

These are very strange awards, because as far as I can tell the medal bar versions of the ugly pinbar brooches were never officially sanctioned, and were just privately marketed to veterans as an easier wear to wear things in civilian clothes--

anyone have a photo of a serving armed forces member or uniformed Reserve/Landwehr officer wearing this pre-1913 "medal bar form?"

And why did the Prussians use this form and not the other states? I've seen more MINI-BROOCHES than I have "medal bar brooches" from the non-Prussian kingdoms!

Very nice lapel bow with attached minis and beautiful little mini medal bar-- always great to see and appreciate those too!!!

On the last mini chain the 1866 and this medal bar form long service have certainly been replaced: the chain dates from the 1930s. A pre-1913 LD2 would have been modernized to the M1913, and there is no 1897 medal, as a Prussian 1866 veteran would have received, aside from the bizarreness of the rest of the awards to an 1866 veteran. (The Ehrenlegion 1920s veterans medal also should not be on there with a Hindenburg Cross.) That is always the problem with chains: they are easily monkeyed with.

[Gerd Becker]

Thank you, Daniel and Rick.

Regarding the last chain. The Kriegshilfsdienst-Kreuz and the Red-Cross-medal tells me, this guy could be in any medical-staff or so. My question is: Did a medical receive a wound badge, when he was wounded? In some states they could not get a lifesaving-award. What about a wound badge?

Thanks in advance
Gerd

[Gregory Koepp]

man i love that chain!!!!

greg

[stogieman]

Saxony too!

Saxon NCOs/Enlisted wore a brooch, pinback long service bar as well. Up until this year, I had only seen one miniature of this award and it was an exact duplicate of the full-sized brooch, only about 16mm. wide! They came as a cased set, originally from Detlev Niemann in Hamburg. Mike Dunn & I traded it back 7 forth a couple of times, but I don't remember if Mike has it still, or if it went to live with another collector.
This year, I saw a beautiful enamelled example, hanging from the traditional Saxon LS Ribbon, on a mounted, full-sized medal bar. the bar was listed on eBay-Germany. Outstanding and rare bar!
Did any of our members receive this bar?