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


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    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 :love: 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!

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    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

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    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."

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    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?

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    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?

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    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."

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    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.

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