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Looks somewhat Belgian, but I'm way out of my area there. Certainly nothing I've seen before.

Yep... EKs for both world wars.

I especially like the fact that it's a allegedly a sanitized 1957 ribbon bar, but that the eagle is perched on something that has to be concealed from eBay...

This ribbon bar should start this thread off to a suitably painful start...

I don't remember how old those photos are, but I've had them on my hard drive for some time now.

So we can't use the tartan to help with an ID? (Field Marshall MacKensen?)

...but the back side is downright, Scottish?

The front side of this medal bar currently up on eBay is odd enough...

Surprising number of Baden decorations popping up here...

#4 = 1902 Baden Jubilee?

One of 144.

Nothing but ribbon bars on my end...

Looks like it's been covered in icing.

Not that it makes any more sense on there, but you've also got Bavarian Red Cross decorations on that ribbon. -C

...and:

I think I got the only two items that he had in either of those two fields...

I rather doubt it, as collar tabs are apparently 1933-1934 vintage, and wouldn't have been on the same uniform. Might have been part of a lot from the same SS trooper, but there's no way of knowing. The seller was a police specialist that knew what stuff was, but was clueless when it came to valuations. Simple commonplace stuff hideously overpriced, and some wonderfully undervalued. Both of these sold (individually) for less than an Ostmedaille he had for sale. Far be it from me to educate him on the error of his ways.

Same source as the 10 Fusstandarte tab I picked up for a song

I did. I had already bought it when I posted, as the deal was almost too good to pass up. My instincts told me they were good, but I asked for second opinions as it's enough out of my area of expertise.

This one is downright disorienting...

That thing looks like it's about ready to start melting at room temperature.

No Hindenburg Cross, therefore it has to be 1934 or earlier.

...any news yet?

Very seldom does one see widows that are so highly decorated...