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    The comprehensive five-sided suspension topic


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    Hello all,

    Enough talking about medals! :D Let's start a topic about suspensions. As my collection is growing I noticed that there are several types and variations of five-sided suspensions. The Red Bible covers them only very basically. I though it would be interesting to compile all types and variations in this topic. Feel free to add information and pictures.

    Auke

    Type 1: Brass suspension. For example seen on this Medal for the Liberation of Warsaw:

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    Type 1: Brass suspension, with front plate. For example seen on this Medal for the Defense of Leningrad (not official pin though):

    hanger_messing_dubbel_pin2.jpg

    Type 2: Steel suspension. For example seen on this Medal for the Defense of Moscow:

    hanger_staal_enkel_pin.jpg

    Type 2: Steel suspension, with front plate. For example seen on this Medal for the Capture of Budapest. On the right is a Medal for Bravery with a variation 2 pin.

    hanger_staal_dubbel_pin.jpghanger_staal_dubbel_pin2.jpg

    Type 3: Aluminium suspension. There are countless variations within this type. For example, a 30 years of Victory, 40 years of Armed Forces, 50 years of Armed forces and 100th Anniversary of Lenin's Birth (unofficial type), all with small differences. The last piece is a Medal for Distinguished Labor with a variation 3 pin.

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    hanger_aluminium_enkel_pin5.jpghanger_aluminium_enkel_pin6.jpg

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    This is a very interesting topic. I guess we tend to forget about the suspensions. Thanks for the pics!!!

    :beer: Doc

    If at all possible, it would be very interesting to learn from what years or eras the different types of suspensions originated from.

    ;)

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    If at all possible, it would be very interesting to learn from what years or eras the different types of suspensions originated from.

    That's indeed interesting. It seems that both the brass and steel suspensions were used before and during WWII, and the aluminium suspensions were used since the second half of the 40's.

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    A really interesting question and the start of a very valuable thread. Let me look more closely . . . .

    The hidden problem, of course, is that these things did tend to get legitimately reribboned and remounted (and I am not talking about what dealers and collectors may have done to them) without the same compulsive attention to types and varieties and sub-sub-variants that we possess. These were, once upon a time, living things, worn in any old way by the people who won them.

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    Rick,

    Another maker mark (I'm here making reference to the one from a plastic ribbon multiple suspension you posted a few weeks ago...).

    Do you have any idea where they are coming from ?

    Cheers.

    Ch.

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    No idea. That is the ONLY mark on a single 5 sided mount out of all the XXX? medals that I have gotten over the last 13 years. I only have 3 painted multiple suspension bars, so the one mark on the one you mention... I don't know how common those might be with so few as a sample.

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    I don't have many 5 sided ribbons

    but none of mine have metal suspensions

    are these things is use before ww2?

    Before and during WWII there were only brass and steel five-sided suspensions. The aluminium suspensions appeared somewhere in second half of the 40's.

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    • 8 months later...

    To add to this very interesting thread (which has sort of slipped out of view), I recently had the opportunity to acquire a treasure trove of ribbons and suspensions. Hidden in this lot were some real gems, including this skeleton of the sort of group which we can only dream about:

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    To add to this very interesting thread (which has sort of slipped out of view), I recently had the opportunity to acquire a treasure trove of ribbons and suspensions. Hidden in this lot were some real gems, including this skeleton of the sort of group which we can only dream about:

    Ed,

    I agree a nice find. :jumping: Unfirtunately, I was away when this "group" has been put for sale by our friend DD... :(

    Well done!!!

    Cheers.

    Ch.

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