for my friend down under simon:)

[römischIX]

hello simon,

here`s one of my new medal bar(s) i told you. very rare... i like red cross decorations!

hope you like it, too

iron cross 2nd class on combattant ribbon, the core has a little bit rust, so i preserved it with some WD 40 (oil against rust)., prussian war aid cross, ansonit (zinc), prussian long service cross for 20 years (landwehr) center in gold and finally the k.u.k. (means hungarian/austrian kingdom) honor cross of the red cross 2nd class with war decoration ("KD" - means with oakleaves) very rare on a german medal bar...

i think the awarded soldier was a german military doctor who fought also at the southern front (austria/italy), because he wears the war decoration.

best regards from another part of the world. joe.

[VtwinVince]

Very nice spange, Joe, congratulations

[Von Eisen]

Hi Joe, thank you for posting your ,VERY NICE, Medal Bar ... its a Beauty and a lovely piece of history, Congrats

I know a little bit about EKs, but have so much to learn about the other awards, thank you for explaining what the others on the Bar are.
You know, Im finding my interests are expanding towards different Imperial awards lately ... Oh my poor bank account


Best regards from sunny Queensland, Simon.

[Von Eisen]

Double post ... Sorry

[römischIX]

hello simon thanks for your feedback.

if you want to learn more about german awards you should buy the "orden und ehrenzeichen" Deutschland katalog 1800-1945 von Jörg Nimmergut.

means: orders and decorations of germany 1800-1945 from jörg nimmergut.

it has a good price. i think you can get it at amazon or at ebay.de

another good book about german medal bars is the book from Thomas
Yanacek with it`s title "German parade medal bars of the third reich", it contains also a lot of imperial medals and decorations. the book is written in english.

now it´s time for bed. in germany it`s after midnight.

regards joe.

[Von Eisen]

Thank you very much for the book advise Joe ... Im slowly, slowly teaching myself to read German and its opening up a wonderful new world to me.

Sleep tight .

[römischIX]

yeah. but don`t learn southern styled german... like bavarian...
you will need 100 years to speak it

[saschaw]

Lovely bar, Joe!

and finally the k.u.k. (means hungarian/austrian kingdom) honor cross of the red cross 2nd class with war decoration ("KD" - means with oakleaves) very rare on a german medal bar...

Nice and not common, but you'll find 100 with KD before you find one without. A new target?

[römischIX]

ich hätte da schon eine: ebay, 1480 euro große nichtkämpfer
aber der sa**** vom auktionshaus geht mit dem preis nicht runter...

sonst wäre sie wahrscheinlich schon weg