Just when you thought you'd seen it all!

[stogieman]

A new cottage industry! FAKE model '57 medal bars!

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...category=15506

[stogieman]

I mean, c'mon!!!

FOUR Long service awards!

[Gerd Becker]

EEEEEW!

What an ugly bar. Afrikafighter, who also fought in the east, then was in the Luftschutz, but got no EK. Very logical.

Seller states, it is from a Major of the Wehrmacht, who also got the DKiG. But no EK2???

best wishes
Gerd

[James Noble]

Rick, While the bar is Bogas do you think the medals themselves are good?

[stogieman]

RE: The Medals themselves

Hi James, the medals themselves look like correct pieces, given what they're supposed to be. The lack of the EK2 doesn't bother me much. Regulations would permit him to wear his EK2 ribbon in his buttonhole. But those 4 LS awards are what kills this bar for me.
On the other hand, that Life Saving Medal sure is a rare one!

[Rick Research]

LUFTSCHUTZ FIRST CLASS: hysterical sniggering

Made by somebody from the former Ostbloc, since the Communist militaries all wore as many as FIVE long services simultaneously, rather than replacing lower classes when higher ones were earned.

What the HECK is that next to last one supposed to be: gold blur on Hungarian WW1/WW2 ribbon?

What frightens me most is that there are imbeciles who pay good money for garbage like this, and are pleased and smug about their newest "treasure."

BLOOOF smilie.

[Daniel Krause]

Na na,

after faked 57 ribbon bars comes not the ultimative FRG medal bar junk!
I have even seen nowadays faked bars with actual awards.

Best regards

Daniel