Ribbon bars

[Dez H]

Hello all

Has everyone seen this page?
http://www.medals.lava.pl/de/de3.htm

Quite a handy link for identifying imperial ribbons from the various states, also covers Third Reich ribbons as well.<O</O

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Rick have you considered something like this with real pictures for Ribbon bars part II?
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[Rick Research]

The Quick and Easy is and always has been Nimmergut's "Bänderkatalog" which accompanies the semi-annual German "Deutschland-Katalog" price guide. Every single official award's ribbon 1800-1945 is in there, pocket size book, in color, and readily available from whoever your favorite German dealer is.

Here's the cover of mine, 1991-92 edition. I assume when they reprint they match the current price guide's cover color. This neat little volume is keyed to the price guide numbers, so you know that award #3071 has ribbon #640, and so on. Since the numbers remain constant, you only need one Bänderkatalog, no matter how often you update the companion price guide.

Devices.... now that is ANOTHER story!

[landsknechte]

Hello all

Has everyone seen this page?
http://www.medals.lava.pl/de/de3.htm

Quite a handy link for identifying imperial ribbons from the various states, also covers Third Reich ribbons as well.<O</O

<O</O

Rick have you considered something like this with real pictures for Ribbon bars part II?
<O</O

One of my personal favorites

Only thing that strikes me as odd off the bat is the white-black EK with the 1939 spange.

[Chris Taylor]

Thats a good point Landsknechte.
If you had been awarded a non-combatant EK2 in WW1 & a 1939 EK2, could you have worn a 1939 spange on it?
I suppose you could, but did it ever happen & how rare would that be?

Does anybody out there know, or better yet have a photo.

Also, I love this site, it's a big help to some one like me who dosen't have all the ribbons commited to memory. At least not yet!

[Dez H]

This would be technically possible, however I have never seen a picture with someone wearing one.<O</O

They would have more likely received a KvK2<O</O

[landsknechte]

They would have more likely received a KvK2<o =""></o>

That was my thinking.. I thought the KvK was specifically intended to replace the white-black EK.

--Chris

[Kloster]

i do like that page, gives me a chance to see the ribbonbars in a sortof neutral color and adds a chance that i can act find out what it is

another side i do like is this:

http://www.axisawards.homestead.com

esp the http://www.axisawards.homestead.com/ribbons.html

Best regards

Kloster

[landsknechte]

i do like that page, gives me a chance to see the ribbonbars in a sortof neutral color and adds a chance that i can act find out what it is

I've found it's also useful for cobbling together representations of ribbon bars. For example:





A little cutting and pasting, and you can use it to recreate or visualize a bar that isn't in front of you

--Chris