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No good, are they?! http://shop.ebay.de/raiki73/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340

Heiko, I have never seen a Zähringer package without name and unit and doubt there were some. If anyone has pictures, please show.

I'm not aware they faked Zähringer Lions. But faked almost anything else... Easy to recognize if you know them, impossible to if you are not aware. Unfortunally I've no pictures handy. BDOS (German medal collector siciety) has a magazine in which those fakes were shown and explained over the years very well. You'll find dozens of articles on this very issue there - unfortunally in German and mostly, back in the 90s, with rather bad pictures. Andreas Thies e.g. somtimes offers some of these fakes - as fakes. His catalogues are online available as pdf files on his site.

I think I've seen it on eBay, some weeks ago. Without name and unit of the receipient...

Nice to see this cute group again! Please, show me just one without... ;)

Unlikely a Feldwebel-Leutnant's, as they got other (higher) awards. Must be an EM's or younger NCO's. MIssing long service award is intruiging, but beware - some just did not mount them.

The combination is possible, but not common. The three medals are private purchased replacements. I think it's a good bar.

Interresting group. The combination seems to make sense, however the sewing does not concince me. Bigger pictures of the BMV3X possible? That should give an answer about the whole group.

Probably different makers, however yours must be older. Noone has a Baden one?

This here's my only one, probably to a doctor.

I had never seen one like that, until I got one two weeks ago. So two around... still not common. By the way, I think I've yet to see the Baden LD in mini size... anyone?

Very nice one!

I'm not much into Austrian awards, but am I right assuming that one must be WAY rarer than with war decoration?

The man on the photo wears something that screams navy to me. I'm pretty sure the then-seler has no more images. That was in 2005 or so...

Still no problems with the cross. There are slightly variations within the "Type A" cores. The English term is 9th bead fake, actually Neuntpunktfälschung in German.

I'm not an expert on these but guess there is a major difference beteween the first one shown and the second... isn't it?

This here must be Schubert's ribbon bar - right? Non-machting device on BZ3bXE ribbon, no device at all on SV3aX ribbon, and order screwed up a bit again...

Here's one more, apparently to the same wearer, but with the order of awards massively screwed up. Did a picture of Lieb wearing a ribbon bar pop up in the meantime?

Seems to be a very nice and original one.

Unfortunally not, but anyway it's not related to the shown bars. Is there a chance to idetify this trio from what is on it, and from what isn't? I guess there is not, but who knows...

Otto Braun died in 1906 so it cannot be his. I'm not aware he had a son. His son in law did win a BZ3bXE, but not the Waldeck award. I know that stuff when it was sold from a local reseller some years ago and my father did buy bits of it - but I have NO idea whose these bars are. Lovely, nonethless.

No problems with the group, and by the way the war effort cross is mounted correctly.

Interresting and rare combination of BMV4X and BMV5bXKrB... pity the condition. The wider border is seen on any of those that does not have golden but silver gilt medaillons, to keep them apart.

Thank you! Tom, yours might be a Hassian bravery medal.

I found this one here - but honestly, I do not know what it is. No EK2 so sorry for being offtopic - but two awards in the button hole though. BMV5cX and.. Baden merit medal? It were likely as it is an KB "8er", but... I'm not sure here... Help appreciated!