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1946 the wild bunch.

Here is one from 1948:

Looking for early photo's from 1945-1949. I have only a few.

I never could find a exact match for it. These ribbons are comming out of Germany.

Any idea what the yellow/orange ribbon is? Top row 2nd from the right.

Hi Kirk

Welcome to the forum

When do them bester badges date from , the dont look as pretty as the one I posted

Order of Victory

These were to be issued in 1990 I believe.

Back to the subject of Bester Badges. Here are a couple I don't have, wish I do tho. Can be found on ebay.de at times.

Hi Kirk,

Welcome to the club! I love your site and all the goodies you carry. One of these days I need to get with you re: some ribbon bars. You actually ended up with one I was aiming to get off Ebay a while back. Was a fairly big one too... I'd actually outbid you on it but there was a glitch somewhere along the way internet wise and by the time Ebay got it it was too late. Really wanted that one too as at the time I didn't have any. Even now I only have a few smaller bars so I'm still hoping for more. Just wish they weren't quote so pricey. I think the one I'd wanted that you got went for something around $14 or thereabouts. I'm still kicking myself over that one.

I'm also planning to get some of your reference CD's. Just gotta build up the old war chest again before I can jump back on the band wagon.

Again so glad you've decided to join us. I'm sure you'll have some fascinating contributions re: the area of DDR militaria and I hope you enjoy the rest of the forums as well.

Dan

Dan,

Yep still some great deals to be found on ebay.

This forum looks like a good one. You can tell collecting DDR items is more popular than 5 years ago, just look at all the forums. Some much better than others.

Cheers, Kirk

Hi Vic,

Here's another site I check out on occassion and have for years. They have interesting articles and tons of great pics. And also a sale section, etc.

http://militaria.gunboards.com/

You'll see down towards the bottom they have the DDR section, DDR Trader and DDR Discussion Forum.

There's also quite a bit of material available on-line. On Ebay there are reference discs that come up from a dealer down in Florida that I've heard are quite good. Basically he's scanned quite a number of DDR references onto the discs so it's like getting a ton of refs for around $12 plus shipping if I remember correctly. Might be just under $20... can't remember for sure right now but you'll know it when you find it. He's on the above forum and puts his stuff up in the sales section. And when you consider that alot of DDR refs run in the $40 and up range this is cheap to get a ton in one fell swoop complete with all pics, etc. just as in the book itself.

Just do me a favor... leave a few treasures for me!

Dan

Dan,

That would me selling the East German Military Reference CD's. On going 5 year project.

More info can be found here: Reference CD's

Thank you, Kirk

Year or so ago, I bought a large Stasi ribbon bar on ebay.de which I the time I thought to be a excellent price. Only to find out the ribbons were photo copies. At first glance they look real, closer look and well hmmm they didn't look right at all. Taking the ribbons out, I noticed the paper was very thin. With no impressions showing on the back sides.

Photo a a few fake ribbons I have found:

High res photo for better detail.

2 fake and 1 real

Thank you very much Gordon for your kind help!!!!!

Year or so ago, I bought a large Stasi ribbon bar on ebay.de which I the time I thought to be a excellent price. Only to find out the ribbons were photo copies. At first glance they look real, closer look and well hmmm they didn't look right at all. Taking the ribbons out, I noticed the paper was very thin. With no impressions showing on the back sides.

Photo a a few fake ribbons I have found: