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    Hi,

    Is it just me, or was 700 GBP way too much for this bar. Maybe I'm missing something here?

    Regards,

    Sam K.

    http://www.spink.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=1008+++++310+&refno=11579056&saletype=

    BTW, 700GBP was the gavel price.

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    I posted the picture and text in order to show what we are talking about...

    Auction's description:

    310

    A Group of Five to a German Veteran of the Great

    War

    Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class

    breast Badge, 44mm, silver and iron centre; Germany,

    Saxony, War Merit Cross 1915, bronze; Germany,

    Imperial, War Combatant’s Cross 1914-18, bronze;

    Germany, Saxony, Reserve Long Service Medal,

    Second Class, bronze; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Red

    Crescent Medal, 29mm, silver and enamel, with silver

    and enamel suspension bar and integral top enamel

    riband bar dated AH 1327-1329, good very fine,

    mounted as worn, with a scarce Bestowal Document

    for the Ottoman Empire award (5)

    £200-240

    post-199-003777700 1290938343_thumb.jpg

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    Hi,

    Thanks everyone for the replies. Also, thanks Claudio for posting the photo. It did not occur to me that it went so high because of the document Chris. That may be the reason. It went over my head, as I am not a document collector myself. Saschaw, I agree and I thought with the Turkish award it would top out at maybe 325. Once again, thanks to all for taking time to add input, I really thought I was missing something "hiding in plain sight" as the saying goes.

    Kind regards,

    Sam K.

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    Hi,

    It did not occur to me that it went so high because of the document Chris.

    Kind regards,

    Sam K.

    Hi,

    have no idea what the doc says.. or even if it belongs to the group. If Claudio was to saw it was not with the bar when sold a few years ago, or if it were to a toilet cleaner... we would be back at wondering why the group went for so much.

    Best

    Chris

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    I saw similar groups, offered with Ottoman awards, and some time later, these incl. the ribbon ripped of...

    :off topic:

    I hope this won't happen to this one as well... such a shame.

    Let's hope that when you spend 700GBP on a bar you're not going to ruin the value. To sell the medal individually? What other purpose would there be in removing the medal&ribbon? Is this some kind of numismatic equivalent of ethnic-cleansing? Please tell me it's not. :violent:

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