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    Help with an unknown Weimar era ribbon


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    Hi Chris,

    It almost look like a ribbon for:

    Preu?isches Kriegserinnerungskreuz f?r Kombattanten mit Schwertern (DN 2.02.31.b)

    (see picture).

    Maybe the wearer didn't find any ribbon that was exactly like the Veteran cross' ribbon...

    ciao,

    Claudio

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    I'd say Scott is right, this is the ribbon for the Prussian "Verdienstkreuz f?r Kriegshilfe". It was actually a royal Prussian award, but awrded from 1916 to 1924 is may be considered as "Weimar era", partly. :P

    The nicer bar of those two should be the upper one, with the Bavarian "Beamtenband" for MVO or MVK.

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    Guest Rick Research

    Yes, it is a full size War Effort Cross ribbon on this home-made bar, squooshed under the next normal ribbon bar sized ribbon-- you can see the bulge it makes there.

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    You both have a good eye... I didn't think that part of the ribbon could have been covered by the other two lateral ones...

    Ciao,

    Claudio

    Got it a couple of days ago. It's the Verdienstkreuz... Nothing exotic at all. For some stupid reason, when I looked at the picture, it never really "clicked" that I was looking at overlapping ribbons. I thought the red stripe on the left was part of the Kyffh?user, and that the ribbon was a purely black and white striped affair.

    The Bavarian bar was the reason that I bought the pair. It's one of the 'two decorations on one ribbon' bars. I would have never thought that the War Merit MVK/MVO was common enough to warrant that.

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    Guest Rick Research

    :Cat-Scratch: Nor would I-- that's a beauty! Didn't realize from the little scan that it was a one-piecer. :cheers:

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