Emanuel

I never saw this medal,

great piece of art, thanx for the thread Sasha.

How rare this medal is?

Great Order 7TISHA, I think it's one of the most beautiful awards in Europe.

Here is my Huguenin version

The first Medal Bar with the BMVO4bX got Luitpold Jubilee medal from 1905 while the one with Bavarian 2nd class mit Krone und Schwertern has the 1915 Jubilee medal.

Regards

Emanuel

Thank you for your thoughts, guys. I figured the recipient probably wouldn't be able to be identified, but I thought I'd try just in case.

Emanuel, that narrows it down a bit. Is there a specific time frame the non-magnetic type FA crosses were manufactured, or were they made at the same time as the magnetic types?

Late war, some says that are also Private purchases, but for sure, they are more rare than their "Iron" brothers like from mm Bernh. Knauer for example

Your Oldenburg FA cross II class is non-magnetic tombak, not common piece.

Hard to find these days

Nice Bar, with combination of a Hanseatic cross and Oldenburg, I saw a lot of Navy guys receiving such Medal Bars, if this says something to you...

I will try to find you a concade without Monogram in a good price.

By the way,if you are interested in Serbian medals ,I put up for sale a nice one in our Sale subforum.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36817

Kind regards

Emanuel

Very nice medal bars

Christophe

Thank you Christophe, much appreciate :P

Nice bar Emanuel,I only have one bav,not as nice as yours though! mine has been through the wars a bit

Dave

Hello Dave,

Why? I found your Medal Bar great too, your guy had his part in WW2 also.

Wish I had this version also

Thanx for showing anway :)

May we see a close up of the BavMVK2x please?

-similar to #1 in 1930 with Bavarian medals coming first, before the elevation of the EK2:

Hi Ulsterman,

Certainly,I'll make some new photos these days among them and a close up for MVK2

As I see that you like Bavarian Bars, I looked if I got older pictures from another one of mine.

This is a "Bavarian style" making Medal Bar before 1934 of a true NCO this time, with Bavaria Merit Cross of II class.

I like to collect stuff from this state

Nice clean group. Is the EK marked?

Thank you for asking Tom

"KO" , Love them, got a couple of them ;)

Reverse

I had time today-as the weather was great also-to take pictures from one of my Bavarian Medal Bars of an eventual NCO enlisted guy.

Iron Cross II class, Bavarian merit medal III class with Crown and Swords,Hindi Cross and Bavarian medal for 9 Years of Military services

Hope you like them

Obverse

Rare for a better look of the hardware...

Back with magnetic pin also

Greetings all,

My addition to this thread,my Black Wound Badge, Magnetic kriegsmetall.

But I might let it go soon, as I am not so much into Badges.

Hope you like it.

I still do not like this one bagde, but thanks for pointing out that style DID exist in the 30s.

I neither like (at least) Emanuel's 2nd example. Those are frequently on eBay.de, offered by the same guy(s) selling dozens of FAKE clasps for China, South West Africa medal, Colonial medal and now even Kyffh?user medals... all "from old stock"...

Hi there,

Well, not mine, I just pull them out from my Pic Data collection to show as I said the basic form of these badges.

I forgot if it's from Ebay.De, might be but for sure these NWB are too overpriced now to purhcase one and reckon Rick's stories that you could buy some 20 years ago for a few bucks a couple of them.

There were stores in Germany with not able to sell them to knowone,I don't know why, they are not ugly or something, maybe people didn't knew what they was for, no other explanation about this fenomenon back then....

I have to say that I never saw a piece like yours and I do not like the device at all, Pin and catch are far from WW 1 pieces but the front also lack from the basic form.

Can you tell us also the price that you purchase it?It is vital as a seller will try to give it away in a 50% less price sometimes,its common this attitude you know..

Anyway,here are some pictures to compare:

What can we say about these details, pictures talking for themselves without doubt....

The neccesary close ups as always....

Thank you Sasa,

just for you I made a shooting today as the weather was great for it.

SERBIA-YUGOSLAVIA KINGDOM - ORDER OF SAINT SAVA -Huguenin mm

Astonishing, MINT quality as you see from the photos below, this St.Sava Order from the Kingdom of Serbia and later Yugoslavia.

Made by Huguenin from Switzerland in mint condition with Gold finish.

I might let it go this in the future, I don't know, but it's one of the best Orders I ever had....

Enjoy the pics

GREECE - NAVY MARITIME CROSS WW2 -1940

Greetings to all with another one piece of my collection, Navy issue this time from WW 2.

Bronze Navy cross made by Spink-London in extra fine condition with original time blue-yellow ribon in it's box.

Hope you'll like it

Greetings Sasa,

I assume this is a cocarde from King's Peter I era, is that right?

(Every King had his initials on these concardes like on the epoletes of his Officers)

Hi there.

are you sure the position of the French order is at 3rd place?

I do not know the ribbon of this order and it might belong to 5th place as red ribbon and that 3rd position was often covered by "Milos Obilic" for Bravery medal.

Yes you can say, Medal before Order?

Well, I saw some Serbian medal bars that doesn't follow that rule...

Greetings dcollect my friend,

the 1st one is Medal of I Balkan GREEK-TURKISH WAR -1912 when Greece was in war against Turkey.

Greece back then free lands and territories with Greek population like Macedonia,Thesally, Epirus and several islands of the Agean sea.

Your medal is with proper original ribbon.

The 2nd one is from II Balkan GREEK-BULGARIAN War-1913 when Greece fought Bulgaria with Allies like Serbia and Rumania.

The ribbon is original but not the right one for this medal,this medal has the same ribbon as the above medal but instead of red, has green strip in the middle.

The ribbon you got is original from WW2 and from the Military Star WW2 1941-45 First type (with the crown)

The 3rd one is Order, GREEK Order of the Phoenix from Greek Kingdom Era with proper original ribbon.

Hope it helps you somehow ;)