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As it is a Coburger bar, I think it's a Nazi's bar who got the SEHOs in the 30s. Where to wear 1930s Nazi-SEHOs?! Better pictures might be interresting ...

Hmm Gentlemen, now what to do with it? I do have a Cross of the of the General Decoration here as well as I've got several different Prussian long service awards. What should I switch to make it correct? The bar itself looks actually fine and old to me, but presumably someone played with it. There are some bars in this strange old collection that are kind of funny, e.g. the Anhalt-Tunisia-Soviet bar I posted recently ...

Thanks Rick ... That's a funny bar. Pity it isn't genuine, would be a Anhalt burner.

Would it?! Gentlemen, here you are - a W?rttemberger:

Naxos' Merit Medal is presumably not in zinc but in iron. They are often in such a fresh condition ...

Very nice stuff Gentlemen, and dond, your bars used to be mine. But anyone wants to say something about my bar form #30, please? Just a "good" or "bad" would do it ...

Sure it has a back:

Yesh, Anhalt rocks ... Gentlemen, how about this bar? It comes from the old collection I'm taking part in sale, but I'm not sure about this one. The needle hook looks and three out of five ribbons do not match ... Does anyone give it a chance?!

But I do not know why it should be fake? The seller's an antique seller who's in business for at least thirty years. He doesn't matter anything, even not anymore the money at all - he has enough. I'd guess he bought the bar many years ago (for presumably nothing) and hang the decorations on it to sell it ...

Someone has ever seen a wooden medal bar? The Golden and Silver Merit Medals of Schaumburg-Lippe are missing, but the bar's still interresting - and easy to compost. If someone wants to give it a new home, maybe as he has the two medals laying around naked ...

His uniform looks kind of queer ... Could you please be so kind and date it? I'd guess it's post 1866 and pre 1871, but the Waldeck Merit Cross was just instituted in 1871 and the Photo is presumably taken later, but when?

Something with Waldeck?! From today's flea market, no "bling bling" but just a photo. Well, one of the nicer ones, I'd say ...

Thanks Wild Card, you hit the point - with #1. It is - at least in my and my father's opinion - a bar for a Karl Friedrich knight. One out of 288 in World War I. A very simple combination, no chance to identify. Presumably just one of those Leutnants or Leutnants der Reserve thet were awarded a "Karl Friedrich" in 1918. Actually, the first Karl Friedrich medal bar I've seen with no chance to ID ... #2 is wrong, this is just a crappy fake from "G?de", worth approx. US $10.-. I've never seen a single sided jeweler's copy of a Z?hringer - by now.

Does someone know why my father bought this one this morning on Ebay.de? I know it ...

To refill the thread with "something" ... From my own collection, acquired when I was, hmm, maybe 14 or 15 and still worse than just bloody unaware: Later I changed it a bit to prevent nausea and vomiting, and now it looks like this: : I won't ever sell it as it might (or will) get in eeeevil hands ... Edit: I looked it up. I was yet 16. ... but just for two weeks.

I cannot read the adress, and on mine you cannot even read anything, but we can imagine it's the same stamp. We've got another way to match address to time period: an engraved medal of "Landwirtschafts-Kammer für die Provinz Brandenburg" to Schäfer August Miethe, Giersendorf, 1876-1906. A nice bar for a Shepherd, isn't it?

As they are almost identical, too similar to be from two persons and furthermore came together, my guess is: the one on the right bottom belongs to the others and is the "youngest". He was awarded anything after the 1934 Honour Cross and the tailor just used a Red Eagle ribbon. I have no idea what this could be, but it has to be a n y t h i n g ... [on a very strange position, by the way]

Have I told you lately that I love you? Well, this does not say much about it, Siebentritt collection was not 100% clean as presumably no collection is. No one ever claimed y o u sew the bars. Hmm, a Badener Combattant in 1870 without a Baden field service medal? Not very likely. A non-Baden Baden patriot? Even less likely ... Furthermore, I still don't like its mounting - for an ca. 1905 to 1910 bar. The "H?ckert" bar is fine, very fine. Indeed nice old silk ribbons. I found a very similar but nicer one (will show it later) here in my father's collection. Same stamping on the back, same mounting ...

Awarded post 1934? Don't think so, but I've got no idea what it actually wants to "say" ...

Hmmm ... No more apologizes as I did yet in posting #48: No more reasons and no explanations. Please reread what I've written in posting #44: I didn't claim they to be wrong but that I've got a bad feeling (sic!) with these. A feeling, nothing more - so I ask for other opinions to learn something about it. "What do you think?" was my question - as we all do not know, do we? PS: After taking a closer look again, I'd say #1 might be good or might be a fake, #2 i s a fake in my humble and honest opinion (I would have placed a bid on it if I liked it), #3 is fine actually ... This is no defamation, please do not use this term again referring to QUESTIONS I'm asking in a forum, thank you ...

He had at least one more German award, an Iron Cross 2nd class, as he wears the EK I on the photo. So I guess - if the picture and bar belong together - this is a IInd row bar ...

Then my honest apologize - if I should be wrong ...

Three's my lucky number ...

Another one:

Hmm, my feeling says to the bars sold on German Ebay by "2.mfg" as well. What do you think?