Awards and/or bars from Anhalt are tough to find.

[Bob Hunter]

At least it has been so for me. I'm sure some of you gentlemen can broaden my horizons in no time at all.

Let's see whatcha got?

This is my one and only medal bar.

[Bob Hunter]

reverse

[Bob Hunter]

and now some ribbon bars

[Bob Hunter]

and another with a touch of Reuss.

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[Bob Hunter]

and another

Edited December 4, 2005 by Bob Hunter

[Bob Hunter]

reverse

[Bob Hunter]

Here is a half height ribbon bar with an Anhalt award.

[Guest Rick Research]

So YOU'RE the one who has them all!

Nice indeed Godet medal bar!

I have, to my lasting chagrin, NO Anhalt Friedrich Crosses on a medal bar-- and it is a award that I have always liked in chocolate bronze.

There may be a stray lost in the remaining pile, but methinks I have exactly TWO ribbon bars:

The combatant ribbon on this Baden Military Karl Friedrich Merit Order (green enamelled wreath has fallen off) recipient's bar

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Which MAY have belonged to Friedrich Franz von Unruh, Adjutant of the Inspector of Aviation. Note the bizarre Godet ?M3K wreath on front and like your medal bar, characteristic Godet pin and hinge construction, gray backing, and little "license plate" tag which is intact on my ribbon bar and missing from the center of your medal bar:

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And the noncombatant ribbon version, here with a combatant EK to some Major-ish type:

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Thaaa aaaa thaaaa aaaa thaaaaaaaat's ALL for me, folks!

[landsknechte]

My one example:

[Claudio]

I liked your medal bar very much, Bob. Here's my brother's bar (Frackspange) with an Eisb?r (polar bar, nick name for the Ritterzeichen 2. Klasse) and Anhalt Friedrich's cross 2nd class.

Ciao,

Claudio

Edited December 4, 2005 by Claudio

[Bob Hunter]

Wow! And on a non-combatant ribbon no less. A superb piece, Claudio!

[Gerd Becker]

Bob, what is the red/green/white-ribbon on the bars in post 3 and 5? Do these two bars belong together?

Nice bars everyone

Gerd

Edited December 4, 2005 by Gerd Becker

[landsknechte]

At least it has been so for me. I'm sure some of you gentlemen can broaden my horizons in no time at all.

Let's see whatcha got?

This is my one and only medal bar.

By the way, what's that last decoration?

--Chris

[Gerd Becker]

By the way, what's that last decoration?

--Chris

Chris,

thats the Silver Gouvernment Jubilee Medal 1896 (Silberne Regierungsjubil?ums-Medaille 1896) from Anhalt.

Gerd

[Guest Rick Research]

The tricolor ribbon is Anhalt's men's 1895-1918 silver medal for 25 years in civil or private employment "Treue in der Arbeit."

[Ralph A]

My set. HK seems out of place to me. ?

[Gerd Becker]

The tricolor ribbon is Anhalt's men's 1895-1918 silver medal for 25 years in civil or private employment "Treue in der Arbeit."

Thanks, Rick

[joe campbell]

bob, rick, landsknecht, and ralph -

boy, are there some lookers there!!

i love the first bar, bob, and the godet

plate on the ribbon bar certainly is a beaut!!

thanks for the anhalt tour.

joe

[Guest Brian von Etzel]

Claudio, wow! What a beautiful combination. Any opportunity to show this one, I will take. Like Claudio's, but with swords. Claudio, can you explain the order on yours? The Hausorden "Albrecht des B?ren" is by name an order, without enamel. Why if you are from Anhalt, is it not the highest placed on the bar?

Edited December 4, 2005 by Brian von Etzel

[W McSwiggan]

Question Guy Again?

Since we speak of Anhalt, I?ve a question that came to mind when Claudio referred to the ?Anhalt Friedrich's cross 2nd class?. The obvious question is ? was there really a first class? I?ve heard it referred to in catalogues such as Nimmergut and in Neal O?Connor?s volume two, it (first class) was listed amongst the awards to Sachsenberg & Osterkamp but other trusted resources have suggested ? that while minted, it was never awarded and that the listing for both Pour le M?rite aviators came from the faulty recollection of Onkle Theo which showed a precise duplication of awards for both aviators.

A penny for your thoughts. Was there an actual authorized 1st class & therefore a 2nd class or simply the Friedrich Cross commonly known as 2nd class?

[Guest Rick Research]

People certainly WORE "1st classes." Though those never existed officially.

I suppose we get into the habit of calling things by the same 2 class system. I do that with Brunswick, even though there was only a single class until 1918, so anything before then was not a "2nd Class."

[Dave Danner]

People certainly WORE "1st classes." Though those never existed officially.

I suppose we get into the habit of calling things by the same 2 class system. I do that with Brunswick, even though there was only a single class until 1918, so anything before then was not a "2nd Class."

With Brunswick, however, it is the case that the pre-1918 Kriegsverdienstkreuz was officially redesignated the KVK 2. Klasse.

Anhalt's Friedrichkreuz was just that. Unless someone has evidence of a Princely Decree or other pre-abdication regulation bifurcating the award, referring to it as a 2nd Class only creates the confusion noted above. The proliferation of post-war "1st Classes" notwithstanding.

[Stogieman]

We have a photo in the archives of a fellow strolling down the steps of a church after his wedding and he's wearing both "classes" of the AFK... will try and dig this out tonight.

[David Gregory]

We have a photo in the archives of a fellow strolling down the steps of a church after his wedding and he's wearing both "classes" of the AFK... will try and dig this out tonight.

That is an image I would very much like to see.

[David Gregory]

Some people should not be allowed to handle militaria. Take a look at the Anhalt cross offered here.