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Claudio, I located three more that might just qualify... First is the Silver Merit Medal to the Bavarian Crown Order. Maker marked Losch. Second is the Silver Merit Cross to the Brunswick House Order. Third is the Bavarian Twenty Year Long Service Cross.

#33 I think of as a Prussian bar with the Reuss silver merit medal on the end. What makes the bar unique is the presence of the statute or peacetime ribbon for that award. It is only the second one I have seen but it is only the second one Stogieman has seen and he's been looking at medal and ribbon bars a lot longer than I have. #31 The Adler der Inhaber is a fairly rare duck by itself. The second medal is, I believe, the Prussian General Decoration and the one on the end is another rare bird. That is the Silver Merit Medal to the Brunswick House Order and I will post close ups so you can see the markings. #47 The medal in the last position on the bar is the Finnish War of Independence Medal.

Gorgeous badge! Nice to see you fooled Santa into thinking you had been a good boy!

The Bavarian XXyear Police Long Service Cross.

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OK, Paul, let's start with #49. This is an extremely rare and original mounted Imperial German medal group to a Bavarian Police Officer. It consists of the WWI Honor Cross for Non-Combatants; The 1916 King Ludwig Cross: The rare Silver Honor Medal to the order of the Bavarian Crown (maker marked Losch); The Silver Honor Medal to the Bavarian Order of Saint Michael and the ultra rare Bavarian Twenty Year Police Long Service Cross. The group also has a 1930's era medal bar with clip on backs that appears not have been upgraded as the first bar still has the medals sewn in. It also has a rare matching ribbon bar in double furled south german style. I'm attaching close ups of the two really rare medals. Here is the Silver Honor Medal to the Order of the Bavarian Crown.

Oh heavens no! Your English is far superior to my French!

Very nice Daisey, Jan Arne!

...now if I could get my French up to speed we could have a real conversation!

I did thanks. Some of country side still looks familiar.

Stunning piece. Congratulations on adding it to your collection.

Thanks again, Christophe. It looks like the area is being turned into another tourist's ice cream stand.

Kamsahamnidah.

Still, a pretty biggun'

Yeah guys but remember in that kind of game they're not playing "how" but "how many!"

Great photo Claudio! That has got to be the mother of all frack bars!

What is the commercial looking one to the left of the Heer dagger? For that matter, who are the makers of all the commercial blades in your nifty looking display?

Dave, I would like to able to establish that fact but I doubt that I can.

Well, Jim, I will try. George Seymore had a collection the likes of which we will never see again. Ralph Abercrombie has a most excellent one. Mine is just what it is, an accumulation of items that please me without the remarkable depth and dimension of other collections.

...and now the entire civilized world knows the source of my avatar.

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...and this is the rest of the grouping Stogie mentioned.

Heiko! Are you becoming a "closet" dealer?