Mark M

Chris

I will take a stab at it. I am sure someone will be along shortly to correct me if I incorrectly ID any of these. Starting front to back:

Red Cross,

Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit medal,

Saxe-Colberg-Gotha Kriegserinnerungskreuz,

Possibly a Bulgarian Merit medal,

Oval Carl Eduard medal

And a Saxon Long Service award.

Regards,

Mark

Gents

I tend to agree with the Henry the Lion Merit Medal 2nd class. If is very close in size to the open spot, and it does tie in to the Brunswick theme. Being 800 silver it would also explain it being "liberated: from the bar.

The Russian medal for zeal ribbon looks close, but the missing award is cross shaped while the zeal medal is round. The St. Anne medal is too large to fit.

Now to just track down one of those little Brunswick fellows......

Thanks to all for the help and suggestions. I appreciate it!

Regards,

Mark

Paul

A rough translation would be that he is interested in the sword from your 15th Uhlan uniform set and wants to know your price on it.

Refards,

Mark

Rick/Mike

Thank you for the suggestions. I don't know about the St. Anne's, but the Henry the Lion might work. The measurements from the top of the indentation to where the bottom of the awards hang is 35mm. Does anyone have the sizes on either of these awards?

Regards,

Mark

Here is a close up of the indentaion left in the last ribbon and padding:

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And is this the missing award:

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Reverse of the bar:

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I picked up a little 4 place medal bar that is missing its last award. The ribbons are a bit tattered on the obverse, but otherwise it is a nice bar. The awards that are on the bar are as follows:

1914 EK2, BrK2, Austrian silver merit cross with crown and unknown

The ribbon for the missing award appears to be a Baden long service award. From the indentation in the ribbon this appears to have been a 15 year LS cross.

My question is this: why would a Baden LS award be mounted behind the foreign Austrian award? Especially when there are no other awards from Baden mounted on the bar- only Brunswick! Does anyone know of any other foreign awards that used this ribbon?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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Ed

Thanks again for your help, and the link. That is a very interesting website. I think I will send Senor Barrio an email inquiry to see what exactly he thinks of this bar.

Regards,

Mark

Ed

Thank you. I recognized the first two awards but not the last two - that is why I started the thread in the Spanish Civil War forum. Please feel free to move it to the correct forum.

Out of curiosity how are these awards mounted to the bar, and can the order of mounting be corrected?

Regards,

Mark

Close up of the Morrocan medal:

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Reverse:

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I am going to post these photos of this bar I saw to see what everyone's thoughts on it are. 4 place medal bar that appears mounted in the style of 1930's. The awards consist of:

Spanish Civil War Victory medal.

Military Merit cross with 3 brass bars,

Order of St Hermengildo,

Morocco medal with 2 campaign bars for "Larache" and " Melilla".

Does this bar look legit? What would the last two awards have been awarded for?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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Figures by Marc Copplestone. I really like his sets. Those are the German mercenaries right?

Stephen

Only the outside left and right figures are from Marc Copplestone. I believe they are from the German Officer group in the Darkest Africa range. The middle three are from Brigade Games. Lon Weiss was doing a whole range called The great War in Africa but he hasn't released anything for quite some time.

Regards,

Mark

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Rick

You could always bid on this one:

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Dan/Dave

Let me ask a question about the frogging on the atilla. You both clearly state that it is not a Saxon piece. While I agree that Saxon frogging should have green flecking, some do not. Paul Sanders in his reference books The Uniforms and Accoutrements of the Imperial German Hussars, illustrates a named and dated tailored Lt atilla from the 20th that has no flecking in the frogging (pages 208 to 210). The only green flecking is in the toggle buttons and rossetes. Both of the added sellers comments are from Marshall Daut, who was one of the pioneers in field grey German uniforms, who supports this belief. No one is disputing that the tunic hasn't been screwed with, I'm just wondering how you can be so certain it isn't when it sounds like this particular regiment used both styles of frogging?

Mark

Wild Card

Great looking bar! Interesting as he did not mount the EK2 on the bar, but does wear it on his ribbon bar! It is a very unusual combination to boot!

Regards,

Mark

Kevin

I did see the two toes in the bottom of the one photo but I couldn't tell if they were attached to anything or not!

Regards, and happy bidding!

Mark

And here is a link for this listing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ext-Rare-Mecklenburg-G...1QQcmdZViewItem

Like I said, I'm glad I don't collect tunics!

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AND, if those were not enough, the last one listed is a field grey general majors tunic from Mecklenburg!

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