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Usually seen are bravery awards by other German states such as a Bavarian military merit cross with swords or Hassian bravery medal. I have one picture of a Bavarian soldier - unfortunately without an EK2 - who wears a Bavarian military merit cross with swords, below a long service medal. That is highly unusual (and for sale )
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Mark? The last time I saw that group, it belonged to Stefan. The only Saxon unit that was in Finland were there Karabiner, whose honour chief was the grand duke of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, which explains the combination of Saxon, Weimar and Finnish awards. I used to have a ribbon bar to a Leutnant/Oberleutnant from the very same unit.
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There is a new ebay seller offering great stuff, but at least from some I know: he cannot have it. Stolen pictures from the internet, offered as "his ill father's collection". Some are Claudio's, some other is at "Deutsches Ordensmuseum" in Neuffen, and most are from Thies' and other auctions. And some single medals are from "raritaetensammlerclub". http://shop.ebay.de/myhobbysammlung/m.html :violent:
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Ha, so my "royal" guess was pretty right. There's some more thing indicating it... and noone noticed back then. It was not written in the catalogue and noone yet posted, so I think noone here knows. Should we try, just for fun? How about Generalleutnant à la suite Prinz Albert (or Albrecht?) von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1863 - 1948)? I think he qualifies as "royal", seems to have the proper kinship for the awards, was alive in 1934/35... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albrecht_of_Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gl%C3%BCcksburg
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Paul, where did you look - Prussia? As said before, I'm not sure where we have too look. I have more pictures of the set that I could send via e-mail, if you want. If the group is fine, we are looking for a WW1 officer who saw action in WW2 and was alive at least in 1957 due to the Wiederholungsspange on the EK2. Probably unique, but I find many, many with BZ3bX and SMK in the Prussian army.
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Sure you're right, we can never be sure, but... why? Mis-matched ribbons are that common I would not even think about this were a Hassian long service award. A hook on the back does neither indicate anything. The bars were made when noone knew what awards would be mounted in this time. If there were no hook, we could be sure the bar is meant for the Turkish award. With a hook, we don't know anything. Summarizing, I tend to think this is rather Turkish than Hassian. We hardly see a Hassian soldiers WW1 medal bar without a Hassian Bravery medal. They were given quite liberately, especially to officers and career soldiers.
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The ribbons for Hassian military long service awards and Ottoman war medal are that close, you will often find them mixed on German medal bars ("that's close enough", the tailor probably said). I cannot see anything here that screams "Hassian" to me - it is rather a Badener's bar - so I think Ottoman fits. The two mentioned ribbons are even that close I cannot remember any difference.
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EK 1914 Whats the deal?
saschaw replied to Chris Boonzaier's topic in Germany: All Eras: The Iron Cross
"dem Gefreiten" is the proper dative case for "der Gefreite" or "Gefreiter". German's like Latin with the endings... just different. ;)