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Bad Carl! Turn that EK2 right way around on the bar with the Lübeck Cross!
These are all enlisted men's bars, the standard hook back type that was regulation for them until 1918, and the only regulation way they could wear ribbon bars (by unhooking the medals) until 1916.
Mote the i,proved, patented tab back style painted Feldgrau that is used on the Anhalt pair-- the field grau paint is a pretty good indication this dates from during the war, into the early 1920s, since after that they normally had a shiny nickeled finish. I've seen ribbon bars with the FG backing, long ones, into the 1930s-- apparently old leftover wartime stock that never got used then.
Two awards like this are basically the most any enlisted man (and most junior officers) could hope for, and probably mean that the recipient was a native of each of the three places.
Don't know award figures for Anhalt, but probably in the same ballpark of 8,000 as the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross.
Oldenburg, on the other hand, gave out about 65,000 Friedrich August Crosses 2nd Class on combatant ribbon.
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