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Could it be an 1849-1849 Austrian large golden bravery medal and an Austrian service cross for 40 years?

Absolutely beautiful! I can’t even compete, this has already been shown here at least twice, the second one, practically common place now:

Here’s a very interesting non-combatants-combatants bar that just sold for what I think is a really reasonable price:

Ah, that’s too bad, but needless to say, even with this being the case, the ribbon still compliments it’s nicely. I love the nice dark original patina!

Such a great piece and with the original ribbon to boot! The pictures are great but I know it’s always better when you have it in your hands! Congratulations!

Nice Rick! What a great Christmas gift!

I remember seeing a post about this a while ago and let me just say how extremely impressive this is! This is probably the rarest set of awards I’ve ever seen! To have 1 of only 4 awarded in the Netherlands! Amazing! Congratulations! best, Dan

I’m glad you got the chance to see this! It seems my initial thought was right, it’s still a very nice combination! Very nice house order with swords! And I may have said it before but I love the cased FAK1 Vince! Although it’s not an award, I thought it may be fitting to share this here: best regards Dan

Gianni, This looks wonderful! Having these awards on it really makes such a difference! Congratulations on such a great find!

very nice collection! Single bars are always great pieces! It seems to me that the medal the bar where removed, polished and cleaned and then returned to the ribbon, look at the holes above the bar and the threads above the medal eyelet, but this is just a hunch

It’s really a very very nice bar! Such bars are really an extreme rarity! Im really impressed!

If it is an Oldenburg long service cross or medal, probably the later, which after more thought, it most likely is, it’s a gendarmerie medal bar. In all likelihood the first award is the FAK. Here’s a couple of examples:

Just saw this up on eBay and wanted to see what your thoughts on it where on it:

Very nice bar! I would say that no.2 would be a non combatants Friedrich August Kreuz, especially when you consider the KVK right next to it. Congratulations on such a great find!

Would you happen to be able to provide the weight of the cross?

A Bavarian order of St Hubert with diamonds! This guy really has the holies of all holies!

Wonderfully fully enameled so as to “prevent soiling” of the uniform

I’d say it’s the Austrian military merit order commanders cross

Hello, What a great gift! The second ribbon on the first ribbon bar is the Herzogtum Sachsen-Meiningen Medaille fur verdienst im krieg 1915 The second “iron cross” ribbon on the second bar is the Preussen Militar-Ehrenzeichen 2. Klasse\ I hope this was helpful

Quite. It’s really very unfortunate too, and forgers have gotten quite good at it too. I regret to say that even the one that I had shared on this thread turns out to be a forgery as well, even though it was identical to an example sold by Künker! Even when you compare examples that have sold at auction, even some of the ones that are sold there are admittedly sold as forgeries. Its such a terrible mine field after the one I’ve purchased I’ve stayed away from all of these Ehrenkreuzes

Hello, In my honest on my opinion, I would say at best this is a spangestucke. The swords aren’t the right style but this doesn’t always necessarily mean that it’s fake. In this case however, I’d have to lean towards them being inauthentic. Also, the arms of the cross are “speckled” like that of the RAO and not smooth, but once again this could be explained as being a wearers copy. For me, the biggest concern is just how large the swords are for the cross. best regards, Dan

Hi Dom, The unknown manufacturer is “Ochs & Bonn” - Hanau

As beneficial as standing desks may be, I don’t think it’ll be helpful in this case… I do have to note the lack of an EK2 on the bar despite being awarded the BMVO4X. In all fairness to Vince, an argument could be made for both sides as to whether or not it is the FEK or the 1870 Denkmünze. It should be remembered that the denkmünze in steel was awarded to those whose severed a minimum of two weeks in the army at home or didn’t see front line service. My apologies for not giving to much to add in this discussion and search

It’s clearly a Prussian soldier, he’s either a Musketeer in parade uniform or a Leutnant but I doubt that. but if you could show the location where the photograph was taken at the bottom, usually that can help narrow down what regiment he belonged to.

I think it’s for a Leutnant in the Oldenburg Gendarmerie