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Yes i agree! Heiko, those are nice bars! i imagine your collection is a mindblower!

Nice wee ribbon bars CR!

Keep them coming Gents!

Regards

Paul

Joe, the sizes are as follows, using my trusty Vernier calipers...

Width of the whole cross....43.7mm side to side and 44mm top to bottom

Each arm and its widest point 26.2mm

Whereas a 1914 cross is @23.3mm and the overall size is 43.2mm and 43.3mm respectively.

And yes i agree, it is a good solution.

Rick, yes you are correct, it is the three ring cross, i thought i was referring to this type of cross when i said 2 ring...

But are these '3' ring crosses more rare?

Jim, i am waiting for the HH in the mail...hee hee!

Cheers

Paul

Good point Stogie....

May do this anyway...but i was told that the two ring one was the rarer one to find......is this true?

$100 generous? well i suppose so...the bar cost me $300USD

Cheers gents

Paul

Thanks Christophe!

Heiko! wow! what a super bar!

thanks for showing!

Heres another wee Baden one for you

Just a long service mounted on its own.....

Regards

Paul

Good Morning Gents,

Thankyou for your constructive replies.

The seller has offered $100USD back on it or he will take it back, and give a full refund.

After a long deliberation..( i slept on it )i decided to take the sellers offer of the $100USD in the form of another medalbar..( slippery slopes got me now!)

And i will try to get the enamel repaired, as upon inspection...this bar is quite unusual.

Methinks that this recipient must have had these medals mounted Baverian style before adding the Hindenburg cross, as the bar has the prongs on the back (5 of them) for the suspension of the medals from the back of the bar......and when he decided to add the HK, the bar was taken to a Jeweller and the style changed to the furled parade ribbon type. and as a result of this...the medals were sewn to a strip of cloth (on the front)which in turn, is sewn to the bars backing plate.

So to cut a long story short....to replace the Hamburg...i will have to cut where it is attached and try to replace the medal and get it to hang in there somehow....

Oh! and another discovery...the EK, seems to be made of the later 1939 frames...as it is quite a bit larger than the 1914 frames.

all in all...i hope the seller learns to package this sort of thing more efficiently....we collectors cannot handle the anguish of seeing our charges damaged in this way....

Regards

Paul

Ralph! Nice medals! wow!

Heres another coming this way...

a nice little non com bar..

I like it anyway...

Cheers

Paul

As I am now!

This beautiful bar was damaged in post...just got it this morning and when opening it and

all the pieces of enamel floating out onto the table( i thank the stars i had the presence of mind to stand over a table when opening it!)

It would have been my first enamel piece...i was just getting into these and i like bars...and...the rest is history....blame the slippery slope! ( you guys know....)

The seller has been informed and geniunely shares my greif at such a travesty

and is prepared to take it back! a true Gentleman!

Regards ....and still weeping......

Paul.....

Hi Claudio,

Yes i had seen that wee group.

It is nice indeed as Stogie says, its good especially due the documentation.

Thanks gents

Cheers,

Paul.

David,

Thankyou very much for the information and the website links.

I am just pleased to be able to find out the history of this regiment and know that i have the bar and veteran badges for a Gent who was a footslogger in this Illustrious regiment of the Kaiser.

All my other bars tell me Zip,nada, zilch! so its nice to have some history behind the bars.

Cheers

Paul.

Thanks Gents,

I felt that it was good to do in this particular case. It was really dirty in hand...

Cheers,

Paul

Thanks Chip.

Cool!

Now i want to know more about this 110 grenadier regiment.

Obviously a Baden regiment. but where did they fight and was their commander noteable? and maybe this wee bar could be traceable? due to the centarmedaille?

Hmmmmm, at least i know which regiment he was from...more than some bars i have..

Cheers

Paul

Hi Chip,

I see now...sorry but the pic i have is the sellers and i have tried to enlarge it but its just making it really fuzzy.

The actual pic he put on the auction was only 60 odd kilobytes so i cannot make it bigger no matter what.

But i have enclosed the pic for you.

Cheers

Paul

Hi Chip,

Do you mean this one? i think its a baden badge of some sort...because of the ribbon

what do the gents think?

Thanks for identifying the badge for me!

Cheers

Paul

And here is a Document for this medal

Thankyou Gents! for your kind words!

It was a labour of love...

Cheers

Paul

Hello Gents.

Just received this nice Parade mount Centarmedaille and as it was dirty i decided to clean it...

Gently with a damp cloth to clean the ribbon...its made a very noticeable difference...

then i thought to clean the medal....now i know..there will be guys out there who will condemn my actions, but in my defense i wish to say this;

I am collecting single medal bars and i wish for them to be displayed in their original glory...smart and presentable....

I Never...repeat... Never clean medals on my medalbars...i just leave them as they are.

Anyway i do like the outcome...it looks just great!

Cheers gents

Paul

Here one of three gents!

Here is a Gent by the name of Alfred Holz taken in 1917

2 more

hello Gents,

I have these postcards that i want to share.

Hope you enjoy them.

Cheers

Paul

Hello Gents,

I have only this one! it came with the medals shown.

Keep them coming gents!

Regards

Paul

And here is my Great Grandad, Leslie Gordon Forbes and his bike back in the 20's after he got back from the war.

Thanks Mike!

I see a penchant for the FAK's...

I do like the Brunswick NC bar...Sweeet!

Thanks for showing.

Bob.....

Awesome wee bar! i LOVE IT!

Cheers

Paul

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