Stogieman

Great bar and I missed the end of this auction or I would have been trying for it too. The interesting thing is he actually sold it earlier this month (??) In any event, the second time this same bar appeared in Germany! Nice coup!

Hi Jason, show us all of them together!!

Just wanted to pop this one back up as the bars posted by Bob & John represent a "non-traditional", but often encountered style. When you find one of these, they're a little odd looking, but in most cases, quite real! Nice stuff!!

Looks like a quite right, stone-cold mint 25-Year Polizei LS Cross to me. Oh so nice with the embroidered eagle on that ribbon!

My gut is telling me this bar will prove to be quite allright... An Austrian "other ranks" who went into the SS very early and received his 8-year LS Medal before things were really cranked up for WW2.

And a big Thank You to RR for adding his take on this little gem!

Oh yeah.... can we see the back as well?

Saxon Merit Order with Swords (probably 2. klasse) Saxon Honor Cross, or Saxon Long Service (tough call with this pix) 1914 EK2 Lippe Cross for War Merit with incorrect swords attached (Possibly a Lippe Order with swords on war ribbon??) Red Eagle (?) Possibly Hamburg Hanseatic? Honor Cross, no Swords Centennial Medal Lippe House Order, Peacetime/Statute ribbon Ca. WW1 with the 2 Saxon awards taking precedence. So you have Saxon with a Lippe connection somewhere! Nice Bar!!!!

I think Dave Danner will be pretty thrilled too. He's a big Baden buff!

Do it Marcus! It would be a boon to fledgling collectors everywhere!! Good Luck!

Entirely possible combinations and look quite right to me! I see a lot of this still... I've had guys contact me with boxes of smaller (4-place and less) bars that were all made up, never sold/distributed and found stuffed in a box on a shelf, in a basement whatever. Usually from Tailor shops, not from the medal retailer themselves! By boxes, I mean literally boxes. The last nice lot I saw was 50+ pieces, 3-piece WW2, stone-cold mint!

Nice work Marcus! Thanks for helping to define the issue and resolve it!

Does anybody know what the story with these pieces is? There's been a veritable plethora of these crosses that have appeared on the market in the last few months. Was there some type of "find"? Or what?

Definately a bogus case..... nicely done, but brand-spanking new. But, as previously stated, great to keep a loose Spanish Cross in Silver in!

Nice bar Claudio, which auction? That's only the second enameled Baden LS Bar I've seen!!

And here's what would be correct for the ribbon.

Well, that is actually probably true to a point. There's so many variations of ribbons on the veteran's pieces that I never even considered that. The Ehren-Legion medal is cheap and easy to find, so no trouble to restore the bar. Regarding the presence of both a Veteran's Medal and the FEK.... There was a period between institution of the FEK and banning of all other "unofficial" veteran's pieces where they were mounted together. It was this specific reason that these other pieces were banned. It was not however a simultaneous enactment and you will find literally hundreds of examples of Veteran's Crosses mounted with the Honor Cross.

Thanks Claudio! A good point, I just assume we all know that the first ribbon with reversed BZL colors was for the Merit Cross. Good observation!

Wow Dave, thanks for the generous and educational reply. That certainly clears up much of my confusion. thanks also for the link!! Now you know............. Ask, and ye shall receive.......

OK, I'm back to 1897-1913 for a date on this puppy.

Hi Christophe, My file pix of the outside of the case is corrupted, so no joy there. Sorry!

And a cased Lubeck:

Oh heck, why not........... Here's a boxed Bremen Cross:

This is kinda fun, here's a very interesting loose example on an original, Austrian-style tri-folded 25mm. ribbon mounting!

And just for fun, here's herr Weitze's original sales photo: