Wild Card

That's what I was thinking.

Got it Dave. I completely missed that one, thanks. One point - if we want to go to the fine points, between the 4.5 mm blue stripe and the very edge of the ribbon, the Württemberg ribbon has a 2 mm red side stripe (like the one on the subject ribbon bar which, of course, is scaled down); while the blue stripe on the Romanian ribbon appears to go right to the edge.

Gentlemen, I think that you will find that the similar Romanian award ribbon has two blue side stripes. http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4310

Interesting in that we have the Prussian EK and the Bavarian BMVK yet nothing from his home state of Württemberg but the LDa. A really nice bar though.

:jumping: A wonderful mix of awards = a truly beautiful bar Congratulations Claudio! :cheers:

The 1848 smaller "W" would look like this -

Very nice! Never seen one of those cases before.

Straight forward. The material speaks for itself. Well done! Thank you, :cheers:

I look forward to threads once again being informative and instructive without pseudo intellectual head games. :anmatcat:

Nice group! Please let us know what the research reveals.

:speechless: I had not noticed. In that case... I suppose that anything is possible. :cheers:

:whistle: The more I look at it, the more that last ribbon looks like it is for an Oldenburg 1866 or 1870/71 war medal.

Oh, too bad. Over the years, I have gotten quite a number of ribbons from him, with some difficult to find ones among them; but I guess that they were modern replacements. Well, if all else fails...

Other maker??? Yes... you might say that. I doubt an official one though. :whistle:

What a combination! Fantastic! :love:

:cheers:

You might give Tim Eriksen a try. http://www.timeriksen.com/index.shtml

:love: A beautiful award, and those particular oakleaves are truly the icing on the cake. :jumping:

S.F.S 13099? Very interesting. Could this be a “numbered” award? Would it be possible to see this in detail? Thank you in advance, Wild Card

I agree with your choice of Stalingrad for the greatest number of concentrated awards; but for one possible exception, which I will get to in a moment. There are a couple of reasons for this though. Whereas the Battle of Kursk, as pointed out by Eric B pointed out in post #5, lasted two weeks, the Battle of Stalingrad took place from mid July 1942 until the beginning of February 1943 - over six months! With the exception of The Siege of Leningrad, I don’t think that there was a battle of longer duration, but awards for Leningrad are comparatively rare. I am inclined to think that awards for Stalingrad were a little more numerous because, after all, this was for “Stalin’s City”. The possible exception mentioned in the first paragraph above would, of course, be the Battle for Berlin. By this time, the attitude towards awards had changed; and not only were they given out much more liberally but there were more of them to give out. Khmelnitsky did not even exist at the time of Stalingrad. Glory was founded in November ‘42, Suvorov, Kutuzov and Nevsky were founded in July ‘42. I suspect that these awards were so new at the time of Stalingrad that their qualification criteria was not well enough known for many awards to have been made that weren't. Taking all of this into consideration, there is one thing that I think is worth pointing out. It often seems that, for instance, what earned a Red Star at Stalingrad would have gotten a Glory at Berlin, a Red Banner would gotten a Nevsky or, for instance, Kutuzov third class. Just some additional thoughts, Wild Card

Come on! That's showing off, give us a break. Did I say incredible somewhere before?

I know that this little (prinzen) bar has been posted, but I don’t think that it was in this thread, so...

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Beautiful - especially nice ribbons!

That makes sense - one of those awards made by Carl Eduard of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha in 1935 to his SS friends.