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Very nice!

The top bar is an enlisted man's, an officer would have had the 1905 jubilee medal if he had the long service award. The Ludwig cross is not meant to be worn with any other bavarian war decoration, but this is a rule we've seen broken a few times. Just a couple of points i though i'd throw in.

Matthew

Perhaps an Italian St. Maurice and Lazarus? Or a saxon dutchy long service award? I think lifesaving awards had pride of place in front of any other peacetime ones. Its probably something foreign in last place.

An impressive and complete group!

Another beautiful bar from you Claudio!! The Karl Friedrich Order is so small yet so nice!

Thanks for all the comments guys!! The Waldeck bar arrived today. A bit more dirty than I thought, but anything waldeck isn't too common!

Some final details from one of my now favourite medal bars. The kriegsverdienste inscription and a close-up of the minty ek!

Finally, a Hessian who helped from behing the lines:

A Baden medic who fought his war with bandages and morphine:

Another medal bar still on the way, mounted in saxon style and in need of some restoration!. I'm thinking Brunswick KVK, Saxon FAM in silver (due to number of awards it is more likely for an NCO) and a Bulgarian Soldier's Cross for Bravery (gold or silver?)

A Waldeck ribbon bar still winging its way towards me:

An Anhalter who won his awards the hard way, getting a silver wound badge in the process:

Hello all,

Thought I would show some recent purchases. Nothing really rare but nice all the same!

First off, an Oldenburg non-combatant ribbon bar. I'm not sure if the middle two are an RAO and a PKO or a long service and allgemeines ehrenzeichen, but leaning towards the former:

Konrad sure didn't want his ek falling off!!! Very nice bars!!

I definitely wouldn't buy it. I think Saschaw already posted it in one of the fake ribbon bar threads.

First bar: Albert Order 2nd Class with swords, iron cross (but you know that ), Ernestine House Order and long service award, since the recipient was an officer probably an LD2.

Second Bar: Iron cross, St. Henry medal (99.9% silver), Friedrich August Medaille (probaly silver for NCOs due to long service award), Honour Cross with swords, Long service award.

Matthew

Lovely bar! Though even if it is a frackspange he must have been a Prussian with a low regard for the Bavarians!!

Okay, thanks once again Dave for that info!!!

Thank you for that detailed expalantion Dave!! So in general an NCO would be awarded the gilt version of the Soldiers' Cross (meaning the 1st or 2nd class) whilst a private would be given the silver version (3rd or 4th class)? I assume this applied to foreign nations like Germany and Austria as well during WW1? And the other two decorations (the National Order of Military Merit and the Military Order for Bravery) were strictly officer-only?

Thanks once again!!

Matthew

Perhaps someone restored this bar and didn't use the exact decorations? My reason for thinking this is that the RAO and Crown Order seem to hang quite low.

Matthew

Been on evilbay for an hour and already up to 90 euro his other bars don't look much better

Hello all,

Some basic questions about WW1 Bulgarian awards. As I understand it, Bulgaria awarded the Soldier's Cross for Bravery and the Military Order for Bravery during WW1. The former was split into 4 whilst the latter was split into 6.

Now for the questions: Was the Soldiers' cross for bravery awarded purely to privates or also NCO's? Or were NCOs awarded the sixth class of the Military Order? Did they also receive the 'with crown' version? Also, were the gold (1st and 2nd class) and the silver (3rd and fourth class) awarded according to the status of the recipient of for different degrees of bravery? Did the award of a higher class require the previous award of a lower?

Thank you very much.

PS: Here are pics of the awards, just in case the names are wrong:

Soldiers' Bravery Cross

Military Order for Bravery

Ah okay, misunderstood your question.... That ribbon is used on all the grades of the Austrian red cross award.

'Nothing of the ordinary; does not mean not interesting. Imagine was this young lieutenant went through. A very nice bar!

Here is an example on the generic bulgarian war ribbon:

(picture from liverpoolmedals.com)