westfale

I've got this unofficial long-service bar?today?and?because?I?didn't?see?this?kind?before -?I've?seen?only?one?with?enamel?- I?would?like?to?post?it?here?for?dicussion. In my opinion

it seems to be an 3rd class bar for 9 years, butI'm not sure.

Anybody who can help me?

Thanks a lot

westfale

...and how I can get one of the books after printing?

westfale

And here are the other two crosses,

left for "Kriegsteilnhmer", right for "Witwen und Waisen".

Hi Dante!

It is with swords like the picture below:

Hi Glenn,

thanks a lot for your help and the information you gave me about this guy!

westfale

Hi!

Due to the really superp help I've got in the past I would ask here for some details of an officer of the

"Gendarmerie-Brigade in Elsa?-Lothringen". He is the major "a la suite" Mierzinsky, and I found him at my prussian ranklist of 1895, but I have no list of the later years.

Does anyone have a little bit more information about him, e.g. his career or the orders/awards he got?

Thanks a lot in advance!

westfale

Hi!

I would show you one of my favorites: the prussian decoration for twenty years of service in the landwehr, normally given to officers/medicines. This?one?is made in silver with golden medaillons.

Comments are welcome!

westfale

Some info's:

Milit?rsanit?tskreuz 1870/71, founded 25.08.1870 by Grand-Duke Ludwig III. von Hessen, awarded below 1000 and made by bronze gilded;

Milit?rsanit?tskreuz 1914/18, founded 12.08.1914 by Grand-Duke Ernst-Ludwig von Hessen, awarded with "normal" ribbon given 1870 and also with war-ribbon (see my picture) and made by bronze, gilded and also by zinc.

Thanks a lot from me, too!!

And (for the moment) finally a cross for 20 years of service in the "landwehr":

... and a officers-cross of sachsen-meiningen:

So here you have two more - the rare 1866 cross for non-combattant...

Nice to see that you like the pictures!

Before I will give you some details how I made these pictures - should I post some more?

Great pictures!

Here one of my attempts:

For all of you who are interested in detail, here the rearside of my cross. Not so spectacular like the front, but nice, too:

Great close-up pictures. As Joe said the 1870 Ek shows some very nice detail.

Could you show us the entire cross?

Here it comes:

I will try schaumburg-lippe again, because there are some problem in the way to sumbit pictures...

And another one, same period, this time from schaumburg-lippe:

Now the first of ww1:

Here are some of my "older friends" I've found some years ago and which I would like to show you; hope you will like them, too!

westfale

At first the one from the seventies long ago...

I know, this is not a bar like the others, but because i'm missing the Landwehr-decorations a little bit I put this into my post, hope it's not a problem...

So at least the Landwehr-Dienstauszeichnung f?r Offiziere for 20 years of service:

3rd with document:

2nd and 3rd:

Here are my ones. The DA for 21 years seems to be the 3rd variation, made 1856-75 by "ZEHN". The DA for 15 years ist made 1875-1894 (4th variation) by "A. Werner & S?hne Berlin", and the DA for nine years was made between 1875 and 1894 also by "ZEHN".

I think these bars are really nice, because they are better made than the DAs made quite before WW1!

westfale

!st one:

Thanks a lot for all of your replies!

It is great to see the interest also in older bars, and the "bad news" that it's impossible to identify the holder of the bar aren't really bad, because now there are some more information than before about this man, so there is a short story which is better than none...

I thought the prussians had a list of the recepients of thier crosses, especially of the non-combattant... Is there really no possibility to get an information about the holders fron another source?---

Nvertheless - in my collection I have an 1866 non-cobattant cross and also the 1848/49 medal of hohenzollern, so it's time to look for the red bird!

Thanks again

westfale