A couple of new bars

[dond]

I received these in the mail today from Dion (munster). First up, a nice bar with 1866 and 1870-71 campaign awards.

[dond]

Unfortunately the pin is gone.

[dond]

The second bar is a Saxon bar and is a little more problematic. Yet, this is how it was found.

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reverse.

[Guest Rick Research]

Really nice 1870-1866 bar-- what's the last medal? Some sort of regimental jubilee? The LD2 in secondplace is also the deluxe firegilt type.

Easy enough to clip the correct Friedrich August Medal on the Saxon bar-- either a silver or bronze will do. ANY Saxon Honor Cross with Swords is a find, even loose. Try finding a loose one if you needed one for a bar! :cheers:

[Scott Powell]

great score! i was wondering who got them,glad they went to a good home

[dond]

Thanks Rick and Scott. Rick, the last medal on the elder bar is a Barfuss medal. All the medals on this bar are of superior quality and the construction is nice and tight. The Saxon Honor Cross is a nice, fire gilt over bronze I believe.

Scott, Dion turns up some good stuff. He has opened an Imperial section on his site now.

[Scott Powell]

Thanks Rick and Scott. Rick, the last medal on the elder bar is a Barfuss medal. All the medals on this bar are of superior quality and the construction is nice and tight. The Saxon Honor Cross is a nice, fire gilt over bronze I believe.

Scott, Dion turns up some good stuff. He has opened an Imperial section on his site now.

you are right, he really does have some nice imperial items. i have a Lippe bar winging its way to me from him as we speak

Edited June 21, 2008 by Scott Powell

[saschaw]

Really nice 1870-1866 bar-- what's the last medal? Some sort of regimental jubilee? The LD2 in secondplace is also the deluxe firegilt type.

And it is wayyyy oversized, isn't it? That's the opposite to a "Prinzengr??e"...

Two very nice bars, I like especially the first one.

[dond]

Another beauty for a guy whose career spanned two world wars.

[dond]

And for Rick, the reverse....

[Guest Rick Research]

:Cat-Scratch: Oho! An ANCIENT guy!

He was probably Landwehr or Landsturm in the FIRST war-- an EX-NCO to have never seen action (noncombatant Hindenburg) though the freakishly vague Saxon War Effort Cross doesn't tell us much as to what his duties were then.

But he was a noncombatant AGAIN in the SECOND war ( to see civil KVKs mounted), which with the Volkspflege suggests some sort of possibly medical-care duties.

[dond]

I thought you would like it Rick. Thanks for the evaluation.