Giannis S.

This seller is known for fake items. If you check his other listings, you will see the same artificial aging of the ribbons.

Sold for 302€, three bidders.

This one is on ebay.co.uk

This is as good as I could get.

On the left side of the shield, the fine lines continue and there is not plain area. Same on the bottom, no "fence". Also beneath the cross/sword, there are horizontal lines. I will try to take more clear pictures.

First time seeing the case! 🤩

Two more bars...

Here are the details of the center.

Thanks for your comments. You are right about the ribbon differences.They also have different stripe widths. . Nice collection you have both! Especially the cased medals. Thanks for sharing!

Here is another bronze medal.

Nice medal bar Rick!

Excellent finding Alex!

The medal bar is starting to take shape. Now, for the last piece...

Medal in the correct case.

That bar with the 1870 EK2, sold for 549€.

Thanks for your comments!

If it is any of the long service award for gendarmes, then it's a very limited medal bar, even with a possible ID. According to the following information from https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/ : - 1st class cross was awarded 18 times - 2nd class medal was awarded 35 times - 3rd class medal was awarded 23 times Source: The House Order and the Portable Decorations of Honour of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg 1813-1918, by Friedhelm Beyreiß

I would have expected a Landwehr DA, but with the 25 years cross in second place and the Landwehr DA in the third.

And a case for the Sachsen Kriegsverdienstkreuz went for 258€

I am speechless over all these wonderful items!

I didn't think about this option, because with these double Oldenburg ribbons there are a few possibilities. Most likely the bar belongs to an EM/NCO, but I can't rule out an Officer as well.

I have the following medal bar. No EK2, but two LS medals. My guess for the medals: 1. Honor Cross of the House and Merit Order (2nd or 3rd Class) 2. Oldenburg Long Service Cross 3. War Effort Cross 4. Prussian Landwehr Service Award 5. Centenary Medal

Thank you both!

Dr. phil. Eugen Gantter (1848-1931) was born in Stuttgart on 11 January 1848, died at the age of 83 on 15 April 1931 in Frankfurt am Main. His 1908/9 German Orders Almanac entry calls him a Schriftsteller (writer) and shows as of that date, as a k.w. Hauptmann d.R. a.D. He lived in Frankfurt am Main (Böhmerstrasse 58) He was a writer, a teacher and a journalist. In March 1870, he received his doctorate in philosophy. He wrote on stenography and gave many lectures on this. He published a manual of stenography (Handbuch der deutschen Einheitskurzschrift). He also wrote poems and songtexts ("Volkstuemliche Lieder"), even a stenographer's song (Liederbuch für Kurzschreiber). During the German-French War, he joined the Grenadier Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württemberg Regiment) No. 119. After his military service, he worked for the Schwäbischer Merkur Medal Bar: 1. Württemberg Friedrich Order-Knight 1st Class 2. Württemberg 1911 Jubilee Medal (2,020 struck) 3. Prussian Red Eagle Order 4th Class 4. 1870 War Medal 5. Württemberg XX Years Reserve-Landwehr Cross 6. 1897 Wilhelm I Centenary Medal Button hole: 1. Württemberg Crown Order 2. Hessian War Effort Medal (perhaps) Ref: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Gantter https://dewiki.de/Lexikon/Eugen_Gantter https://www.teubo.de/history/0244.htm https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadier-Regiment_„Königin_Olga“_(1._Württembergisches)_Nr._119 Credit: originally researched by Rick Lundstrom, webr55 and Daniel Krause.

Well, it looks to good to be true. The seller is someone from Belgium who has a lot of items. Including an Albert Knight's Cross 1st Class with crown, bids just over 400€.