DDR DDR Ribbon Bar

[new world]

I saw this ribbon bar for sale, please comment on authenticity.

William

[Lapa]

I saw this ribbon bar for sale, please comment on authenticity.

William

William,

I can't comment about the German ribbons, but as to the Soviet ones, that's a rather strange combination and they would be out precedence order.

Marc

[Ed_Haynes]

Agreed. I feel uncertain. Why a Hans Beimler Medal and no Medaille f?r K?mpfer gegen Faschismus 1933-45??

[Daniel Krause]

Hi,

forget it. Usual new fraud from partly original stocks.

The Combo is so unlikely...

All 4 classes of the Vaterl?ndische Verdienstorden, but just a bronze Kampforden, not a single Banner der Arbeit.

Best regards

Daniel

[Gordon Craig]

New World,

There are lots of these cloth fake ribbon bars for sale on ebay.de. So many that I would not buy any now, even those that were correct, without a guaranteed provenance from a known dealer or fellow collector.

Regards,

Gordon

[webr55]

Here are more, maybe from the same source. I think the Stasi ribbon is always a bad sign...

[webr55]

#2, Stasi again:

[webr55]

#3:

[Daniel Krause]

Actually this type of ribbon bars was handmade for only a very selected group of the top of the uniformed services.

The usual soldier even up to LtGen?s have worn the cheap plastic / paper junk. Just a few people bought the expensive cloth / metal bars from the DDR Mint.

The thing with DDR ribbon bars is always, that there was plenty of leftover stocks and even in the early 90ies the production for the collectors market was going on.

Best regards

Daniel