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Shown earlier but without the badges below.

Nice bar; love the enamel work

Turkish delight anyone? This is a great bar and as shown earlier has a tailor's label.

Nice to find an older bar with the Turkish War Medal on the end. It's B & B Co.

I nice single spange of an EK2 for WWI with a tailor label.

The medal was awarded for serving in Vietnam from 1964 - 1973. Australians and New Zealanders were awarded the Vietnam Medal and the South Vietnam Campaign Medal. BOTH of them were named. There were only 3,312 New Zealanders who were awareded the medals making theirs quite scarce to rare on the market. The Aussie medals were impressed in large capitals while the New Zealand medals were in small capitals. KIA, SAS or 6 RAR for the Battle of Long Tan are super desirable and are expensive. WIAs are rare and expensive too. There were only 2,800 RAN, so medals to them are unusual. There is a "new" Vietnam Logistics & Support Medal with a slightly different ribbon that has been awarded and there are about 20K eligible for it. For the Vietnam Medal though, there were around 18K who served there. It's fairly easy to find them to corps, harder for RAAF and or any of the RIRs it's much harder. There is a lot of info on line and it's easy to confirm whether or not the medal is genuine. There are a lot of replacements but they're named differently; they're pantographed and I would wait to get one that is impressed unless you have good providence with the group; i.e., from the vet. : ) The Australians and New Zealanders have much to be proud of regarding their service and they saw a lot of action. I also know some guys who were stationed with them and they used to have great parties. I understand the Aussies brought the beer and the Yanks brought the beef. There are some other photos and info elsewhere on this site that are well worth looking at.

The obverse of a strange little bar and again how often do you see the middle one mounted? I wonder who would have been awarded this?

Love this Frack. It came from Tom Yanacek. If you don't have his book on Parade Mounted Medal Bars, you should get it. It's a must for medal bar collectors. This came from his personal collection and is featured twice in the book. It's a one piece non-magnetic EK2, the Hindenburg is unmarked and the Prussian War Merit Cross is made of aluminum; all in all, a rare little trio most likely made around the beginning of WWII.

I don't care for this style of mounting, but I've seen it from time to time.

Reverse

Obverse of another DAK bar

Reverse

Obverse of another DAK bar with an Italian Croce de Guerra

Obverse of a DAK bar

Obverse of a bar for some of the worst fighting conditions in WWI

Obverse - The last medal is the Austrian Militär-Verdienstkreuz (Cross for Military Merit) Awarded to officers, in peace time, for distinguished service through zeal and perseverance, in war time for valour and fine leadership. The cross, in white enamel with red enamel borders, was originally instituted on 21 October 1849 by Emperor Franz Joseph I and in 1860 the Kriegsdekoration (War Decoration), a gilded laurel wreath appearing between the arms of the cross, was added for distinction in action. On 23 September 1914 the decoration was reorganized into three classes : 1st Class becoming a breast pin cross (only for general officers commanding at least an army corps), 2nd Class a neck badge 3rd Class a breast badge. On 13 December 1916 crossed gilt swords to be attached on the ribbon were instituted while from 1 August 1917 onwards, subsequent awards of the 3rd Class could be identified by trapeze shaped, gilt bars. The obverse medaillon of the cross bears the word VER / DIENST (Merit), the reverse is in plain white enamel.

reverse with tailor's label

Obverse

reverse with tailor's label

Obverse

One of my favorites and a wonderful Christmas gift from my wife. Read the article in the November/December 2013 issue of JOMSA on 1936 German Olympic Medals.

Obverse I like the older more orange colored ribbons on the Olympic Medals.

Obverse

Obverse

Obverse of one of my favorites. How often do you see a Mine Rescue Medal much less a mounted one?