Colonial Spangen

[stogieman]

Thought you might get a real charge out of this item on ebay.de. We discussed the scarcity of Colonial era spange, it seems our German colleagues agree with us!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2128830709

[Daniel Krause]

Hi Rick,

nice one! I´m watching tiis item since the start of the auction. It is now 202 Euros.

Just my opinion: It looks original, it is RARE, it is nice and it is a RIBBON BAR! (20 mm size of the bar and 15 mm ribbon) It is the 4th one I´ve ever seen. But I will not jump on that. Only this single item cannot tell me a story like a 4 or 5 place bar. So I will leave it for our colleagues.

You see, I´m not greedy and buy every ribbon bar that is available!

Best greetings

Daniel

[Rick Research]

Good Lord! That's about what I paid for the entire Oldenburg "vdF"/Colonial "Venezuela" 6 MEDAL bar I've got posted in an earlier thread!!!!

[Daniel Krause]

Mein Gott! It finished at 303 Euros!!!

Again, not an original size Spange, a miniaturized Spange on a single ribbon bar!!!
Shall I slowly start to sell my ribbon bars? Maybe it is enough to build a house!

Best regards

Daniel

[McCulloh]

speaking of spanges

I just received a box of old Infos from Dland. In one is an excellant article about the Seymour Expedition bar on the China medal. It also references the "beruhmte autor " R.J.Lundstrom.....does anyone have an example of China bars to post?
Just curious.
JeMc

[stogieman]

Amazing!

Somebody X2 really wanted that spange!

[Daniel Krause]

Hi Jeff,

I have only one China "Huolu" bar on a ribbon bar I posted before in other forums. Here is a closeup of the bar:

Best regards

Daniel

[John Skandalis]

Hi everyone.

Can you tell me what were the award creteria for the colonial medal?

TIA,
John

[Daniel Krause]

Hi John,

the Colonial medal was established in 1912 as award for different Colonial campaigns, where no special medal (like the China medal or the Southwestafrica medal) was awarded.

- Deutsch-Ostafrika 1888-1912
- Südwestafrika 1893-1904
- Kamerun 1884-1912
- Samoa 1880
- Venezuela 1902/1903
- Ponape 1910/1911
- Togo 1894-1903
- Deutsch-Neuguinea 1893-1914

In contrary tho the China Campaign 1900/1901 and Südwestafrika Campaign 1907 no medals in steel for merits at home in relation with the Campaign were established.

Best regards

Daniel

[stogieman]

Welcome!

Hi John, welcome to the forum! Good to have you on board!

[McCulloh]

Unofficial bars

Has anyone ever seen an unofficial bar for either Scutarie or Alabnia?
Cheers,
JeMc

[John Skandalis]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the information.

Rick, also thanks for the welcome here.


Regards,

John