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    landsknechte

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    1. Otto Braun died in 1906 so it cannot be his. I'm not aware he had a son. His son in law did win a BZ3bXE, but not the Waldeck award.

      I know that stuff when it was sold from a local reseller some years ago and my father did buy bits of it - but I have NO idea whose these bars are.

      Lovely, nonethless.

      Do you have pictures of the bits that your dad bought? Even if scattered to the four winds, it would be nice to keep a record of what else might have been part of the group originally.

      Also, do the right records even exist to possibly ID this one?

      Jup....this is a pure ww1 combattant medal bar with a ribbon bar 1915+ and a buttonhole miniature 1934+

      NO WAY THAT THIS IS FROM A 1852 BORN OBERAMTSRAT or something like that... sorry !!! :shame:

      Not really disappointed, as that opens up the possibility for something more romantic ;-)

    2. I just got this nice little grouping in my grubby little paws this afternoon. My first OZL with salad tongs and salad :)

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      The seller that I purchased it from missed out on the medal bar that was part of the group, but saved a picture of it:

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      The following was the original seller's description. Can anyone confirm if this attribution makes sense? (Seems like he would have been quite elderly by the time he would have pinned on that buttonhole ribbon):

      Aus dem Nachlass des Grossherzoglichen Badischen Geheimen Oberregierungsrats und Ministerialdirktors im Ministerium des Innern Otto Braun 1852 - 1906 Stationen: 1878 Amtmann in Pforzheim 1884 Amtsvorstand in Adelsheim 1885 Oberamtmann in Buchen 1889 Oberamtmann in Karlsruhe 1891 Ministerialrat im Ministerium des Innern 1892 Vorsitzender des Gewerbeschulrats 1898 Geheimer Oberregierungsrat 1899 Landeskommissar für die Kreise Karlsruhe und Baden 1900 Mitglied des Kompetenzgerichtshofs 1906 Ministerialdirektor im Ministerium des Innern unter Minister Dr. Schenkel --------------------- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ORIGINAL FELDSPANGE um 1900 -----zu den ORDEN vom ZÄHRINGER LÖWEN - RITTERKREUZ MIT SCHWERTERN UND EICHENLAUB + EISERNES KREUZ + FÜRSTLICH WALDECKSCHES VERDIENSTKREUZ sowie ein KNOPF mit SCHWERTERN ------ ALTERSBEDINGT GUTER bis SEHR GUTER ORIGINAL ZUSTAND

    3. Mundane? Well... depends upon your definition. Perhaps as interesting a story as a VC.

      Order of the Bath

      Victorian Order

      Distinguished Service Order (the two holes could indicate a second award)

      China 1900

      India General Service Medal 1908

      So, probably the first bar of a senior officer. His second bar would have had WWI ribbons, coronation ribbons and perhaps a foreign gong.

      I think that soundly qualifies as non-mundane. Royal Order of Dogwashers 3rd class was more what I was fearing.

      Would something like this be potentially identifiable?

      I also picked up a two place bar with the Ashante Medal and the Order of the Crown of Romania, similar, but not identical in construction. (Folded slightly differently in the back, and the thread is different.) I wonder what the story behind that oddity is.

    4. Admittedly I'm a complete and utter neophyte when it comes to UK ribbon bars (I specialize in German), but I found this bar last night. Did I manage to score a Victoria Cross ribbon bar, or is the first ribbon something else more mundane? Can anyone help me out interpreting it, and making sense of the couple of ribbons that appear to belong to a couple of different decorations. Note that the middle ribbon has two small holes where a device or devices once were.

      Thanks,

      --Chris

    5. That "wannabe Milit?rsanit?tsorden" from #45 is the "Kriegs-Erinnerungskreuz 1914 - 1918" from the "Verband Bayrischer Frontk?mpfer e.V.", Nie 2.02.16. Unfortunally, shown without ribbon.

      However, the ribbon on the bar has silver wreath... :ninja:

      Do you mean the edge stripes? In one photo, they do look silvery, and in the one on the right it looks more like a dingy white. I sent off an email to the seller, and hopefully I can get a little clairification.

    6. "Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service Medal."

      From TIME.... sounds like the start of some half truths, mix ups and gobbeldygook....

      As soon as someone starts to claim 16 languages I begin to have my doubts...

      I've got a cousin that's conversant in 15, some people are just freakish prodigies in that sort of thing. Granted, it's just as likely that he was fluent in a handful of them, and then could merely as for directions to the nearest bathroom in the rest.

      I can't help but think of Black Adder though: "...when I joined up, I never imagined anything as awful as this war. I'd had fifteen years of military experience, perfecting the art of ordering a pink gin and saying "Do you do it doggy-doggy?" in Swahili."

    7. You both have a good eye... I didn't think that part of the ribbon could have been covered by the other two lateral ones...

      Ciao,

      Claudio

      Got it a couple of days ago. It's the Verdienstkreuz... Nothing exotic at all. For some stupid reason, when I looked at the picture, it never really "clicked" that I was looking at overlapping ribbons. I thought the red stripe on the left was part of the Kyffh?user, and that the ribbon was a purely black and white striped affair.

      The Bavarian bar was the reason that I bought the pair. It's one of the 'two decorations on one ribbon' bars. I would have never thought that the War Merit MVK/MVO was common enough to warrant that.

    8. 3rd ribbon could be meant as either the Wilhemskreuz or a Charlottenkreuz, since the miniaturized stripes are neither the one nor the other (accurately) here. The 4th ribbon could be either an Olga ORDER or the MEDAL since the ribbons were the same.

      This is a case where it is simply not possible to tell from RIBBONS alone what the combination "means," since the possibilities are so variable.

      10-4. I was running under the assumption that this one had a Wilhemskreuz, which (I believe) would have gone after any orders - and from that assumed that it was the Karl Olga Medal and not the Olga Order.

    9. I'm trying to get my notes back together again on a few of my ribbon bars and lapel bows, so please bear with the occasional resurfacing of stuff you might have seen before for the next little bit.

      Did officers from W?rttemberg receive the long service decoration? I suspect that the pale blue ribbon is either a Friedrichs Order or a Crown Order, instead of being an enlisted man's equivalent. If it were just the medal instead of the order, I would think that the Wilhelm's Cross would take precedence over it.

      Am I even correct in assuming that the last ribbon is a W?rttemberg long service? The stripes are different width than what I'm used to though. Looking at the interior less faded portion, the background is almost exactly the same shade of orange as a Turkish "Iron Halfmoon", but the stripes are distinctly blue - close to a Crown Order blue, but darker.

      Are Karl Olga Medals mentioned anywhere in any sort of rolls? (I can't imagine there were too many male recipients floating around in the military.)

    10. Hmmm... I guess the odds of me finding out the answer in the next few days is probably a bit slim. (Filling out a repro Soldbuch for a reenactor buddy.)

      I was looking through the SS officers listed here ( http://www.specialcamp11.fsnet.co.uk/ ) and they all had either NSDAP long service, or none at all. That's a pretty small sample though.

      I'm wondering if soldiers with prior Imperial or Reichswehr service would trade in what they already had for Heer eagles, and leave it at that.

      Thanks again,

      --Chris

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