scottplen

Nothing fancy but I love the early Baden civil merit medal . 
I assume Prussian in a Baden regiment?

An eBay cheap buy it now find ! 
rare 1st issue lippe merit medal only about 150 awarded .  Very happy to snag one of these !

Is this a good merit cross ?

1 hour ago, RitterSmith said:

I saw the long Wuerttemburg/Baden medal bar at a tiny Militaria show in Florida earlier this summer. I ended up sitting with the seller for quite a long time. He is a person who has contributed to this forum for years and knows all the old timers such as the late Rick Research. He told me what regiment the recipient was likely to be in but I’ve forgotten. He had some very nice imperial medals and Militaria. The medal bar is quite nice.

He was a very nice guy ! I actually wish I had gotten his contact info he had another bar I was interested in but did not buy .

Been google Baden wurttemburg connection come up with infantry regiment 126 . Would this be correct for NCO bar ?

I assume a civilian ?

4 hours ago, chuck said:

seems like the gentlemen did not like the size of his Baden Merit Medal and chose to purchase a smaller version.

 

Yes a bit smaller jeweler example with standard ring I think ?

1 minute ago, Erich Wahl said:

Very nice finds, Scott!  I think I remember seeing the third medal bar at the show.

 

Here's are my three buys:

Nice ! Not many good bars there on Saturday.  I was looking for bars with foreign awards but did not see one ! 

I thought it was cool ! Not many awards I don’t think on the merit cross about 5k ? To an wurttemburg NCO I assume a regimental connection? Am I assume a civilian for the 2 medal bar ?

Seems to be a Wurttemburg day ! 

Baden Merit cross to a long serving NCO !

Antique ball find 

Here are a few non combatant items I’ve picked up ! 
1st nice Prussian reserve officer 

bar 

2 Oldenburg 

3 lippe 

I think they had to apply for the Austrian and Bulgarian medals they were commemorative . 
he would be a native from Saxe-Altenberg . 
here is one I have with no commemoratives but an Austrian Silver bravery medal .
Only about 2300 war medal Altenberg 

bravery medals . Now we both need to find early one ! 

i like it.  

13 hours ago, VtwinVince said:

I like the Nassau bar, that one is actually somewhat scarce. The big bar is interesting in that there is no long service award on it. The 1870 NK bar is nice. Your first NK bar is a bit weird and sloppy in the construction, not getting a good feeling about that one.

Thanks for input I alway appreciate your help. The NK bar is a bit odd but all ribbons are no glow and seem evenly aged /faded  all sewn same manner and awards are good . It and the others out of an Old collection from late 80s early 90s been in storage . My gut is it good just a frugal old soldier sewing it himself or his wife doing it they are actually pretty nicely folded in person the bar presents better . Been reading up on Red Cross awards and the second class would be a war time award and they were  

ranked that way . I assume Bronze was  peacetime award. Technically the honor cross should be placed higher but seen them placed in odd places before .I thought Nassau was cool little bar and large bar I thought same No LS ?with the Austrian Anschluss medal and war service was he still in  or a civilian ?  I paid basically less than what single awards would cost in todays market so I took a chance on the 4 bars .
Thanks 

I think I had a good show ?

1914 and 1870 non combatant bar  Nassau 1866/Prussian bar and WW1 WW2 large order bar.

Oops! Can a moderator remove the sewer 

line repair photo ? Don’t know how that one slipped in ?

Well found a nice example!

bar is complete! Thanks for all the help ! I love these old timer bars !

21 hours ago, VtwinVince said:

Scott, you'll need a War Aid Cross, those are cheap. The Cross of the AEZ is a lot more expensive, you're looking at about 100-125.00 for an award piece, and the AEZ will set you back about 50.00. Nice bar BTW.

I picked up the bar . Now to track down the 3 missing medals !

I have seen this bar for sale 

I know it’s missing 

Prussian war merit cross 

Prussian general honor cross and general honor medal . 
What value without medals would you say ?

what’s does general honor cross cost ?

I grabbed it $75 figured what the hell !

On 26/02/2022 at 09:35, saschaw said:

If you're seeing pieces that are available, but you're not sure if they are authentic, VtwinVince and scottplen, why not post links and/or pictures here? I'm very sure we could sort them out!

 

 

But on the other hand, these crosses are not really rare, especially if you're looking for one without(!) ribbon. If there's no need for a rush, then there's no need to pay extreme prices. Just my two pennies worth.

 

Here one what do you think real ?

I believe may have had swords on Bavarian cross ? A mix of Non combat and combat ?

Only thing I could think is a German who moved to Romania in early 30s and never applied for honor cross ? Seems a mixed up mess ? And no iron cross ? Gold bravery medal from Austria and no iron cross ?

My question is if a German or Austrian where are the Honor cross and Austrian troop cross ? Romanian award and ribbon confuse me I assume for post wwi ? And the last medal ummm wrong ribbon ? Romanian anti communist ribbon  medal is 1940s ? Indian award ? So total fantasy bar ? Or is it to a German NCO ? But no honor cross ? Thoughts ?

Just plain red . Not sure if it’s proper case but came in it ?

Reverse hospital thanks that explains toy DR that came with it ! Seller said they came together?