HeikoGrusdat

a close up of the Mecklenburg 1870 cross would help - I don`t like it from what I see now...

Scott could you please post a better scan of the battle clasps...

Timo ...... I have a bad feeling with the first bar the second bar looks like it is the ribbon for Sachsen freidrich August medal.... but mybe the picture doesn`t bring out the colours as in reality...

Great work!!!!! Thank you all very much!!!

Stogie are you shure about N?4??? Would it be possible to give this man a name with the Milit?rVerdienstKreuz?

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Hi all, today I have got this photo for my "colonial photo collection"............................. BUT.......................... Can someone please explain me this medal bar???? And I am talking of position N?1,2 and 4 of course....... is this what I think it is???? and would this really be possible???? Thank you very much!!! Heiko

....Stogie that is THE man.... I sell off all my photos at the moment

Stijn.....this is the german medal for china - not for africa......this guy has never seen africa during his military career - maybe on holidays...

great Sascha.......

Wild Card.......one moment, please no misunderstandings........ these are not medal bars that have been stolen from my collection!!! I sold these medal bars some months ago on ebay and then the buyer "upgraded" them by himself - no stolen material , only destroyed history - and that seems to be legal in the eyes of Justicia - of course not in the eyes of us collectors....

this is what it looked like in my collection....china medal changed!!!

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I would like to add one more officer wearing this award from Chile.....and some more nice stuff

Leutnant 18.8.1895 Oberleutnant 13.09.1906 Hauptmann 1.10.1912 Major 20.09.1918

ok, some more points to think about.... 1. I know only some men who got all three hanseatic crosses, all were admirals generals or the emperor... I can`t remember a "normal" soldier with all 3 crosses... 2. all combattant awards and then in position 2 a Baden war aid cross???? 3. without baden, Finland and the Silesian eagle my first shot with that combination would have been: Navy... Mediterranian sea...SMS Goeben but with these other awards...hmmmmm, a bit unreal... Ok, that`s from me for the moment..... next one please

Let`s say it with very very careful words....... "a very rare combination...."

one more point...... there were not only "inofficial" clasps..... there were also "completely private made" clasps.... don`t know how to call it ;-) look here... got it on a bar from Tony Colson 10 years ago...now somewhere in the world under the pillow of a thief bastard

after a first look this one makes sense I think...great bar

Rick, just because I am a bit confused............ this last one (42) was part of my stolen collection!!!! Do you want to say it is an ACTUAL picture from a german seller now for sale or is that picture some years old???????????? Please get back to me....

sorry - no..... 5 Euro maybe 10

Prussia long service cross 15 years for NCO`s Preussen Dienstauszeichnung f?r 15 Jahre f?r Unteroffiziere

that`s life gentlemen..... new markets - new prices !!! last years all prices for items related to imperial russia and osmanic turkye went up like a rocket to mars...no better to Vega... no chance to follow this way...

this seller always sells a lot of medal bars from 1870 - 1918 with all the same mysterious reverses.... My personal opinion: ALL are new made!!! By the way, the battle clasps on the actual bars are for sure.......................... fakes

Hi wild card, you are right.... the clasps for the 1870/71 medals were issued in 1895, the 25th anniversary of the war..... What was official were the names of the clasps - what was inofficial was the purchase of the clasps.... every soldier who wanted a clasp or two or three could go to a jeweller and order them - normally every soldier or vet could get the clasps for the battles listed in his military pass. that`s why there are different types of clasps, different types of writing, different materials..... every jeweller made it a little bit different. Then there are some more completely inofficial clasps for some Vets that wanted a different writing for some special battles - completely inofficial: for example: Cernierung von Metz, Vor Paris, Champigny.......