I'll start off with this set and let Carl take it from here.
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Here is another to talk about
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The first bar is a period mismounting, a mistaken reading of putting "other German states" awards LAST that actually applied to pre-Ww1 peacetime awards, not wartime decorations.
The owner was a career regular army NCO, probably in a Brunswick regiment--which limits things. Brunswick had no military long service awards of its own, using Prussia's. Because regulars received double time credit for wartime, 1914-1918 equalled "ten" years, and a 1914 war volunteer who signed up for the Provisional Reichsheer in 1919 could have gotten a "XII Years Medal" like that on discharge in 1920, as a Vizefeldwebel or Vizewachtmeizter (what would be a Feldwebel in WW2). This would have given the owner the right to wear a sword with officer's sword knot as a senior NCO, retired.
The second bar dates 1920s-- a Kyffhäusserbund WW1 veterans membership medal, then the "Loyal To teh Regiment" private purchase cross, which here tells us the unit this guy served in, and last a lone 1897 Wilhelm 1 Centenary medal that indicates this guy was probably a draftee on military service in the 1895-1898 period. That would have made him in his 40s during the war, so probably Landsturm then--note that he got no wartime decorations. The first two medals would have been replaced by a Hindenburg Cross in 1934/35.Comment
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