JensF.

Thanks Rick!

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Another non-combatants medal-bar. This time Baden. It is strange that four out of five awards are mounted reversed.

The ribbons look like new. I hope you checked them with a blacklight.

If this guy was a doctor maybe the hungarian regulations for that medal considered him as "non-combatant" while in the regulations for the Hindenburg cross he was a combatant. I have the same problem with this medal bar. By the EK he was combatant, by the Braunschweig cross not...

New numbers on the right side of the sight:

Closeup of the sight. As you can see the range numbers were changed. Did the finnish used another type of ammo or was the russian unit "Arshin" just too complicated?

Closeup of the stamps. I think it was made in Tula. Maybe someone can help me with a translation of the rest? The finnish stamp "SA" can be seen on the left side under the serial #.

The bolt:

Magazine:

Maybe this belongs to the weapons-forum, but I have some questions who are more into russian history.

A nice addition to my tiny WW1 weapons collection. A (deactivated) Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle. NOT the 1891/30; its the much rarer early type. This one was made in 1906 in Tula and has some nice czarists stamps. There is also a finnish stamp "SA" on it, so I think this rifle was capture by the finnish in WW1 or by the germans and later sold to Finnland. The carrying sling is WWII btw.

And a closeup of the serial#:

Closeup of gold plating:

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Here is the only 2. Class Order of Glory I have. I am still not 100% sure if it is a real 2. class and not a gilded 3. class. It is the thin variation as mentioned above with the serial number 7943. No traces of a removed higher serial are visible.

Don't forget the Military Merit Medal. It wasn't awarded to non-combatants.

Great items Claudio! Yep, Lippe has something really special...

I agree with Christian. The austrian ribbon should also have swords, so it seems that this guy didn't liked sword devices at all.

Just

Very nice and interesting find!

There was also one officer, Leutnant Ritter von Steiner, who was awarded the Commanders Cross of the Militär Max-Joseph Order posthumously. He already had the Knightscross.

Rick, do you have pics and the price of that bar?

>Tony (living in Bielefeld)

What a really strange coincidence...

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I think this combination is not very common. The Lippe Military Merit Medal with swords was only awarded to members of the II. Btl. of Infanterie-Regiment 55. Only wounded soldiers who hadn't an EK were awarded this medal (only 1950 were awarded). It seems that this soldier was wounded and got the MMM first. Later in the war he got the other two medals.

-EKII 1914 with maker "S-W"

-Lippe-Detmold: War Merit Cross 2. Class

-Lippe-Detmold: Military Merit Medal with swords

-Hindenburg-Cross