This interesting ribbon bar belongs more in the imperial forum however I wanted to post it briefly here:
Some of you have already identified the "rare" ribbon...but here is the run down:
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Lippe Schaumburg Kriegsverdienstkreuz
Hanseaten Kreuz (Hamburg)
Österreichisches militärisches Verdienstkreuz
Ehrenkreuz 1914 – 1918
Schlesischer Adler
Treudienst-Ehrenzeichen 25 Jahre
Anschluss Medaille
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Eiserner Halbmond
Orden der heiligen Tamara
To the histroy of the Georgian Order of Tamara, I took some information from antique-fotos.com:
The history of this insufficiently known obscure award originates in the early 1916 when the second commander of the Georgian Legion (Georgische Legion) Leutnant Horst Schliephack decided to introduce a badge to be issued to the military personnel of his unit for merits in the field. It took him nearly a year to design a Badge of the Georgian Legion (Abzeichen der Georgischen Legion) that initially was supposed to have one class only.
According to original draft the Badge had a shape of eight-pointed light-coloured star with a central black enameled round medallion bearing gilt image of a famous Georgian Queen regnant Tamar (1166-1209/1213) of the Bagrationi dynasty. Bust of a dominant figure in the Georgian historical pantheon was slightly turned to the right. Medallion was rimmed by a wide red enameled ring with the Georgian inscription in gilt letters, “Karthuli Legioni”, i.e. “Georgian Legion” and a date the unit was raised, “1915”. Three colours, black, wine-red and stylized white represented colour scheme of a Georgian flag where black stood for Russian oppression, white for hope for peace and wine-red for golden age of a nation.
Silk 26 mm wide ribbon was red and had central 14 mm wide and 1 mm thick black stripes running horizontally with 1-15,5 mm interval.
The Georgian Order of St Tamara was a rare medal, with only two or three thousand ever being awarded, almost all to members of the German Caucasian Expedition who occupied the Georgian capital of Tiflis and protected the new Georgian Republic from Bolshevik and Ottoman threats.
The order itself is pictured here.
Some of you have already identified the "rare" ribbon...but here is the run down:
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Lippe Schaumburg Kriegsverdienstkreuz
Hanseaten Kreuz (Hamburg)
Österreichisches militärisches Verdienstkreuz
Ehrenkreuz 1914 – 1918
Schlesischer Adler
Treudienst-Ehrenzeichen 25 Jahre
Anschluss Medaille
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Eiserner Halbmond
Orden der heiligen Tamara
To the histroy of the Georgian Order of Tamara, I took some information from antique-fotos.com:
The history of this insufficiently known obscure award originates in the early 1916 when the second commander of the Georgian Legion (Georgische Legion) Leutnant Horst Schliephack decided to introduce a badge to be issued to the military personnel of his unit for merits in the field. It took him nearly a year to design a Badge of the Georgian Legion (Abzeichen der Georgischen Legion) that initially was supposed to have one class only.
According to original draft the Badge had a shape of eight-pointed light-coloured star with a central black enameled round medallion bearing gilt image of a famous Georgian Queen regnant Tamar (1166-1209/1213) of the Bagrationi dynasty. Bust of a dominant figure in the Georgian historical pantheon was slightly turned to the right. Medallion was rimmed by a wide red enameled ring with the Georgian inscription in gilt letters, “Karthuli Legioni”, i.e. “Georgian Legion” and a date the unit was raised, “1915”. Three colours, black, wine-red and stylized white represented colour scheme of a Georgian flag where black stood for Russian oppression, white for hope for peace and wine-red for golden age of a nation.
Silk 26 mm wide ribbon was red and had central 14 mm wide and 1 mm thick black stripes running horizontally with 1-15,5 mm interval.
The Georgian Order of St Tamara was a rare medal, with only two or three thousand ever being awarded, almost all to members of the German Caucasian Expedition who occupied the Georgian capital of Tiflis and protected the new Georgian Republic from Bolshevik and Ottoman threats.
The order itself is pictured here.
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