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Here's a ribbon bar with the non-combatant version:

Out of curiosity, do we know whether those post war awards included awards with swords?

Forum user Haku was kind enough to cross check the Erhard Roth books, and that helped to clear things up quite a bit. There are six officers we can eliminate right off the bat: Lt. v. Kyaw - two different Kyaw with SA3aX, none had GSF3bX Lt.d.R Oettler - no SA3aX/SA3bX, no GSF3bX Feldhilfsarzt Andree - SA3aX, no GSF3bX Vetrinär d.R. Willkomm - SA3aX, no GSF3bX Lt. Gottfried Koerner - GSF3bX, no SA3aX/SA3bX (There were a bunch of Koerners / Körners in the Karabiner-Regiment. A different one had the Albrecht-Orden.) Lt.d.Ldw.Kav Eisentraut - appears in photo wearing SA3bX & EK2 on a medal bar, but no GSF3bX There seem to be two matches remaining. Both of them lived long enough that the surviving ribbon bars would be possible, and I'm still digging for clues. Oblt. Adalbert Liebster - SA3aX 25.4.15, GSF3bX 1914 -- Born Daniel Adalbert Liebster on 26.1.96 in Leipzig. Appears in several Leipzig city directories as publisher (I think, can anyone more fluent verify that's the correct interpretation of "Verl.Buch-hdl.") and held a Ph.D. Still alive in 1960. Lt.d.R Friedrich Serre - SA3bX, GSF3bX 1914 -- Born Anton Karl Friedrich Serre on 22.6.91. Married in Dresden in 1922. Died 9.6.66.

This is a good one showing awards from the German states: https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/ This is a site that sells reproduction ribbons, but they've got a chart up: https://sammlerschmiede.de/?cat=c7_Ordensbaender-Sammleranfertigung-7.html

Stumbled across a Wolchowstock at a local show, and I couldn't pass it up. I'm intrigued by the "HN" carved on the bottom. I'm assuming those were the initials of the owner or the artist. As best I can tell, there are no corresponding characters in the Cyrillic alphabet, suggesting it's not the signature of a Russian. The miniature 1914 standing in for a Knight's Cross is borderline cute. There's also another cross carved into the figure representing a Knight's Cross. (Were there any Knight's Cross recipients that bore a strong resemblance to that face they found on Mars?)

Found a nice little group on eBay with an uncommon Bavarian Gendarmerie / Royal Protection long service decoration. (There's a write up on it here.) I don't know for certain that all the items came together originally, but everything seems to line up at first glance. Sadly the long service medal itself is nowhere to be seen.

Ah, that explains it. There were two Leutnant with similar names, I thought it was just one. Another casualty of that annoying reluctance to write down officer's first names unless absolutely necessary. Regardless, with Gottfried not being on the AO list, he's one less candidate to worry about. This has been a huge help.

Thank you so much! If you don't mind, could you double check whether Gottfried Körner/Koerner is listed with an Albrechts-Orden too? Once I started to really dig in, I found an unusual number of officers named Körner or Koerner in that regiment. "Doors and Koerners, kid. That's where they get you..."

I'm trying to triangulate the ribbon bar of a soldier that served in the Saxon Karabinier-Regiment. Does anyone have access to the Erhard Roth books, or similar such resources, covering the Saxon Albrecht Order and/or the Saxe-Weimar White Falcon, and would be willing to check some names for me? Do any of these men have the Albrechts-Orden Ritterkreuz 1st or 2nd Class with swords? Feldhilfsarzt Andree Lt. v. Kyaw Oblt. Liebster Lt.d.R Oettler Vetrinär d.R. Willkomm Do any of these men have the White Falcon? Most likely Ritterkreuz 2nd Class with swords. Feldhilfsarzt Andree Lt.d.Ldw.Kav Eisentraut Lt. Koerner (Gottfried) Lt. v. Kyaw Oblt. Liebster Lt.d.R Oettler Lt.d.R Serre Vetrinär d.R. Willkomm

Does that source you're looking at list when he was promoted to Leutnant? I don't have a birthdate for him, but if the promotion is 12.11.13, then it's most likely a good match. There's still eight officers that I have not been able to rule out yet, he's just the best so far.

I just picked up this lapel bow. As I understand it, the middle ribbon is used by at least two Bavarian decorations: the Civilverdienstmedallie and the Rettungsmedaille. Neither of which I'm especially familiar with. Based on the other decorations that are (or or are not) present, which seems more likely?

Would have been a souvenir for someone who attended some sort of an event, or something that would have been more broadly available?

This medal was part of a lot I purchased recently, and is far enough from my usual stuff that I haven't much of a clue how to determine what I'm looking at. Can anyone help me with an ID?

I'm working on IDing a ribbon bar that's basically boiled down to cross referencing Bavarian Militärverdienstkreuz 1.Klasse mit Krone und Schwertern (MVK1XmKr) and the Saxe-Ernestine House Order/Medal. Between the Bavarian Verordnungsblatt and the 1929 Intendantur Kriegsrangliste I've been able to compile a mostly complete list of the MVK1XmKr. I've currently got 119 recipients of it on the war merit ribbon, and 6 on the standard wartime ribbon. Out of that, I've identified one reasonably solid candidate, but If at all possible, I want to work through the rest of the list to be certain. According to Bernd Döbel's numbers, I'm missing 19 names for the war merit ribbon and 2 for the standard ribbon. I suspect that a good number of them were gazetted in the Verordnungsblatt incorrectly, and they're hiding in plain sight. I've seen a couple of confirmed MVK1XmKr that lost their crown when they appeared in the Verordnungsblatt, and were listed as MVK1X. I'm looking to compare my list to whatever rolls might be around, to see if we can fill in some of those blanks. If you've got access to the relevant rolls, and you'd be willing to cross check my list against them, let me know. Alternatively, anyone have any suggestions for sources that would be worth checking out? Were there any newspapers that reliably published these sort of award recipients?

Does anyone have PDF copies of any of the Theis auction catalogs that covered the George Seymour collection squirreled away? I believe it was in catalogs 25, 26, 28, 30, & 31, but don't quote me on that. (The archive of old catalogs on their site only goes back to 33.) I'm not looking for anything in particular, just thought it might be a nice reference.