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Gentlemen, I just got this Red Cross medal and wanted to make 100% sure it is kosher:

I don't see how this combination of two DAs from different states and from different times should be possible. Chris

Look what I got from evilbay. Anybody want this?

Here is my list of suspects with BMJ, BMV4mKr and HHOX and no other awards in RH ranklists. I have eliminated those who were KIA, though that might be too strict. I don't have the last Bavarian ranklists, so maybe someone else could narrow the list a bit more down. Ernst Brunner August Döderlein Karl Düwell Wilhelm Eitzenberger Hermann Giehrl Emerich Freiherr v. Godin Friedrich Kraußer Wilhelm Reitzenstein Johann/Hans Seißer Gottfried Graf v. Tattenbach Friedrich Tumma Friedrich v. Weech

Looks good! Thanks for posting!

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Plain and simple: A 1914 volunteer who got the SMMM as an Unteroffizier/Fahnenjunker and the Friedrich Knight as Leutnant.

The back:

Any ideas what award this single pre-1914 medal/ribbon bar might have been for? Brunswick? Chris

Definitely interesting with the 40yr oakleaves! Only a couple of them around, thanks for showing! I haven't been able to find this guy, though. He's got the Austrian ribbon without a device, so if that is not an error, he would have still been at NCO-level for at least the first part of WW1. Maybe this is a Zahlmeister type, who nevertheless got the BMV4X on the usual war ribbon.

Huesken once had this for sale:

And a closeup of the miniature. It is quite detailed, for its size:

Tab back with broken needle.

I just got this ribbon bar, maybe for a Bremen native, with the not-too-common miniature for the Prussian Reserve/Landwehr decoration 2nd cl. It is a tab back, and the ribbon with the miniature was upside down when I got it, but I fixed this. I think the bar is original. Chris

Yes! The title of his dissertation was "Über Bauchkontusionen in der Armee". But his more important career started after the war: as a paleontologist. He undertook several excavations in Thuringia and found important dinosaur fossils. There is even a dinosaur "Ruehleia" named after him. Rühle died in 1946. It might be possible to find a photo of him.

Hello Kevin, welcome to this forum. You are right: We do not always find the time to state what is exactly wrong with each bar. Most of them have obvious mistakes in combination or precedence. Some have fake ribbons or awards. Some can be dismissed due to their style. I would suggest searching the archive for "fake" and going through some of the old threads, which offer quite a good guide. Also, there is an excellent article on ribbon bars to be found if you search for "german ribbon bars" on Google... Chris

Here's one I've got:

Great discussion, and thanks very much for the solution! Chris

Thanks! That's what I thought too, but wasn't sure. Austrian style, right! Does anyone have a similar example from Russia? And what level might he have been, with those Russian orders?

The back looks like this: Does the attachment system tell us anything?

Gentlemen, I just have no idea what award this is: Any ideas? Chris

The back:

Gentlemen, I just got this ribbon bar with Imperial Russian awards. This is not my area. Am I correct that these are St. Anne, St. Stanislaus, St. Vladimir order, Romanov anniversary 1913 and what ? (Prussian?) It looks quite German, but is this a bar for a Russian officer? What else can be said about it? Chris

A very nice piece indeed! I think you have the ribbons correct except for #3, which in your case is probably the Greek Redeemer, though it's missing the narrow blue border stripes. Can't be anything German, in that place, I would think. Chris