Ribbon for EK and Prussian GMVK

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

Is it correct to say that the Golden Militärverdienstkreuz ribbon should be 35mm wide as opposed to 30mm for an EK ?

 

Thanks

Chris

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Hello Chris.

Yes, it is.

Nimmergut's Baenderkatalog gives 35 mm for the Prussian Golden Military Merit Cross and 30 mm for the E.K.

Mine are at the bank or I would measure the ribbons.

Bernhard H. Holst

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

 

thanks for the info... now I have to go out and find a ribbon...

[dond]

Good luck.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Here is my Moral Dilema....

The ribbon that came with the Group.... at some stage, somewhere, the recipient or his family decided to sew the miniature upside down onto the ribbon.

Maybe at the time the man was 90, no longer so clear in the head and he did it for a reunion... god knows why....

 

I am torn between removing it and giving the medal its ribbon back... or leaving it "because thats the way it came"....

Having said that... if the man had "improved" his award by a coat of cheap gold paint.... I would not have a problem thinking "That was a silly idea of his!" and removing it....

 

so....

 

1) Remove it and the planets will be realigned in the corret order with one little cut...

2) Leave it and have a pice that has been played with for a bizar reason unknown to anyone alive today... and spend the next 10 years looking for an original piece of ribbon....

 

I am really on a fence here as I see both sides of the argument....

 

[dond]

It's not upside down if you turn it over.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Yeah, but you can see where the cross was on... if you put it on there... it is upside down... but you are right, I will flatten it and put the cross on the other side

[Chris Boonzaier]

OK, I warm ironed the wrinkles out, now the cross fits on the other side ... I can live with the result....

 

[dond]

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