South German tab-backed ribbon bars

[landsknechte]

Just received my latest batch of toys in the mail today, and noticed something about one of the ribbon bars that I hadn't been able to spot in the original photographs:





The typical South German double wrap ribbons (except for the Luebeck ribbon, that's just sorta folded funny), but on a tab backing. I have this arrangement on one of my other ribbon bars, a single. For some reason, the construction never really registered from that other bar. Didn't seem as odd on a single...

How commonplace is this style?

--Chris

[Daniel Krause]

Hi,

a nice Baden bar! This is a early 20ies piece. You can find the south German double ribbons also on tab-back bars but not as often as the single straight ones.

Best regards

Daniel

[landsknechte]

Hi,

a nice Baden bar! This is a early 20ies piece. You can find the south German double ribbons also on tab-back bars but not as often as the single straight ones.

Best regards

Daniel

One resource (http://www.medals.lava.pl/de/de3.htm) shows that ribbon on the left as the Baden Kreuz für freiwillige Kriegshilfe. Admittedly, that website isn't perfect, so can anyone confirm that's what I've got? If so, what are the requirements for that one?

Thanks,
--Chris

[Rick Research]

Yup-- same as the Prussian version.

This bar is 1920s from the Kyffhäuserbund Medal (actually, I think the "Combatants" swords-- an erroir in this case, surely?) were created in 1930. But that Feldgrau painted tab-backed with DRP" I am quite sure originally came in circa 1916 as an improvement over the awful recycled tunafish cans then in use. You will often find this as leftover stick into the 1930s, especially on longer bars, for which more unused examples apparently existed never sold from shops.