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Dinnae ye ken nowt? Tha' yon's the MacFakerty plaid.

Prussian Cross of the General Decoration for 35 years or so service BEFORE 1914...

silver and GOLD Ernestine medals before the war...

silver medal and Merit Cross (gotta love the Xs on the ribbon of the cross with Xs) WW1 with tiny ribbon Xs...

freakishly mismounted precedence...

Mini Ernestines which do NOT match the big uns...

and that ...

Yugoslav style mini monstrosity Anno 2004-ish.

Ah dinnae reckon sae.

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...

These Regimental Medals are quite collectable within a very narrow group. They are quite rare and it's nice to see two examples of this one!

Surprising number of Baden decorations popping up here...

#4 = 1902 Baden Jubilee?

One of 144.

Nothing but ribbon bars on my end...

That reverse enamel is BIZARRE!!!! Enamel on the end balls of the arms!!!!

Looks like it's been covered in icing.

The first Mystery Ribbon appears to be the Finnish Medal of Liberty 1st Class... but since that would be in the wrong place, it might just as well be the Greek Order of the Redeemer or ???

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

-C

...and:

Does this guy have any Luftwaffe or medical/veterinarian related items???

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

Hmmm. You MIGHT want to ask them if they are cutting up an intact uniform and selling off the bits.

The human species is capable of the darndest things!

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.

I agree, they look good to me. It is a Allgemeine SS NCO board for the black uniform.

Dan Murphy

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

Seven Months later...

I do not know anything about SS insignia, yet based upon what I know of Luftwaffe tabs, materials, and effects of aging on cloth... it seems to be OK to me.

Did you get it?

Paul

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.

Could the third ribbon from the left be the Finnish Medal for Bravery (Tapferkeit) in Fighting the Soviets in 1939? Here is a picture.

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

Gents, an Update!

I have contacted the buyer of all the other ribbon charts and he is happy for me to photograph the pages he has... YAY!

Stay tuned!

Maybe some long and old Mysteries will be cleared up soon!

Regards

Paul

...any news yet?

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

Nope. Makes absolutely no sense at all, even as is!

I really must break that pesky habit of trying to interject logic into Weimar ribbon bars...

Do you think the Thuringian commemorative is a plausable candidate though?

Random thought... Would this bar make any more sense if it were the bottom row of a double row bar?

I can't extracate the image from the PDF of Thies' latest catalog, but I may have found another match on page 24:

"Medaille auf die 200-Jahr-Feier des 2. Bat. 7. Th?r. Inf. Reg. No. 96"

Curiouser and curiouser...

Didn't see this one until after the fact, but I can only presume it came from the same man. Even though I missed out on the opportunity to keep the group together, at least I can hang onto the record of it.

Yep... I'm still alive and collecting. I had to take a break from sinking most of my disposable income into photographic gear and a new car to pick up at least one new toy. I suspect it's from a naval groundpounder of some sort, provided that the two naval vanity decoration were chosen by the recipient with some sort of respect for logic. Of course, that may be too much of a leap, given the Weimar years...