Help with 11 medal bar!!

[rajko84]

I got offered this today. I am not an expert in medals, so I need you help.
The guy does not have a price yet so I would like to know what is the value of this and how much I can offer him for it.
It came in the box but a top came apart but it is still there. I was wondering is this how they came?
So any help would be appreciated. Types of medals...

I am sorry about the pics but I took them with the cell.

thank you
regards Rajko

[rajko84]

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22

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33

[rajko84]

The last one I think it is austro-hungarian, and 3 right by it I think they are bulgarian.

[rajko84]

anybody, I am supposed to go tomorrow to see him and make him an offer.
thank you for your help.
regards Rajko

[Scott Powell]

PM Don Doering and VtwinVince . thier opinion's are probably the best on this forum.

i'd also post it on this forum. It's a German forum and these guys are pretty sharp

http://sammlergemeinschaft-deutscherauszeichnungen.org

[rajko84]

PM Don Doering and VtwinVince . thier opinion's are probably the best on this forum.

i'd also post it on this forum. It's a German forum and these guys are pretty sharp

http://sammlergemeinschaft-deutscherauszeichnungen.org

Thank you

[Don D.]

I'd like to see the reverse of the bar.

[Mainemilitaria]

Looks like a nice medal bar....certianly could have "come in that box".....Not really an Imperial bar as it has the 1914-18 Honor Cross (instituted in 1934) and the Baltic Cross which was a Freikorps award, though mostly WW 1 era awards of course.

You may be able to restore the case....
John G.
Mainemilitaria

[rajko84]

I'd like to see the reverse of the bar.

I am going to try to get better pictures. But everytime you start taking a lot of pics price goes up 50%.

[Don D.]

You just need one of the back.

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi Rajko,

What a beautiful medal bar. I would also like to see a picture of the reverse of the bar but, based on the available pictures, I am fairly certain that it is completely original. An unusual/scarce combination of awards too: No doubt the bar of a somewhat vain Prussian NCO that wanted to "beef up" his medal bar by wearing all three of his long service medals, plus the two WW1 commemorative medals at the very end of the bar.

The medals are:
1. 1914 Iron Cross Second Class
2. Schaumburg-Lippe War Merit Cross
3. 1914-1918 Cross of Honor with Swords
4. Baltic Cross
5. Prussian Long Service Cross First Class (for Unteroffizier)
6. Prussian Long Service Medal (12 years)
7. Prussian Long Service Medal (9 years)
8. Bulgarian Bravery Medal
9. Bulgarian Military Merit Cross (grade VI for Sergeants)
10. WW1 Commemorative Medal for Bulgaria
11. WW1 Commemorative Medal for Hungary

The bar is certainly worth $600 so if you can get it for less than that I would consider it a deal.

Best regards,
Tom

[rajko84]

Ok I got better pics.

[rajko84]

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