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    Missing Medal on Franco-Prussian Medal Bar


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    This was recently sold in the sales section... It is clearly a simple bar - but it is missing the last medal on the bar. I am at a loss as to what the medal should be. As you can see from ribbon, it is a simple white field with orange/red stripes. Anyone have any idea what medal should go there?

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    Mind you, I have seen an Honour Medal and a Red Eagle Medal mounted with such a ribbon, but only once, and IMHO, wrongly.

    Other similar ribbons (228, 267, 294 & 465) make very little sense and I very much doubt they are correct for this bar...

    Ribbon 211 for the "F?r Tapferkeit" medal from Hessen-Darmstadt (most likely Ludwig III) like VtwinVince hinted, is the most likely candidate if this isn't a poorly manufactured Prussian ribbon.

    Are we going to see a pic of the reverse?

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    OK, very VERY pale robin's egg blue faded to off white-- typical of Hessian awards even in the World War.

    That is the General Decoration Medal-- LOOKS like the "Bravery" Medal of the same name and identical obverse BUT--

    the ribbon stripes were much narrower-- which is what you have here. The reverse inscriptions were for things like "for merit," "for long years service," and even "for saving life."

    Ribbon is #210 and 211 in the Deutschland Katalog, for awards 870-883 and 886-892.

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    Because of the construction of the plate and pin? I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on that part.

    I can possibly see the 1870/71 medal not being original to the set and being replaced by a Frontkampfer but that other ribbon being the WW1 Hungarian medal? THAT I simply cannot agree to... If it is in fact from the 30s, then I think the other ribbon is still from Hessen as previously thought.

    IMHO...

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    OK - many thanks - now off to find one.... :rolleyes:

    Any Ludwig III medal, which would be contemporary with the bar, is going to be hard to find and rather pricey.

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    Sorry to disagree with all said, but in my eyes this is a mid 30s bar for Frontfighters' Honourcross and Hungarian WW1 medal...

    Anyone to agree?

    That's what I thought at first as my Hungarian medal's ribbon has faded similarly. But my example's reddish parts are wider, extending almost all the way to the edge.

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    Sorry to disagree with all said, but in my eyes this is a mid 30s bar for Frontfighters' Honourcross and Hungarian WW1 medal...

    :rolleyes:

    Anyone to agree?

    Even taking into consideration the fading, the laddering should still be noticeable and the difference between the blue green center stripe and white outer stripes.

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