lippe detmold Rare 1866 medalbar Lippe-Detmold

[Solomon]

Hi gents,

I think it´s time to post again some rare Lippe-Detmold stuff...

Here is a new item in my collection., it´s are rare medalbar from Lippe-Demold, showing

- medal for the campaign 1866 Lippe-Detmold (awarded 988 times, mostly by members of the "Lippisches Füsilier-Bataillon"
- Prussian medal for 1866 "Königgrätz"
- Centenarmedal Prussia

For me it´s the first time to see this medal on a medalbar, I have only some pictures of it (and a single medal, which perfectly fit on this bar).

And here are the mentioned pictures:

The first one shows the Major and commander of the "Füsiliere Lippe-Detmold" Herrmann Kellner II.
I have all of his documents, which I will show later on.
He awarded "his" soldiers with this medal, officers like him got the medal directly from the prince Leopold Lippe-Detmold.

The second one shows a unknown officer.

I hope you like it :-)

Best regards
Roman

[Deruelle]

Hi Roman,

OMG what a beauty, it's very interesting to see such rare medal bar. Congrats.

Christophe

[Claudius]

Congratulations!   

I know how well this fits into your collection -an excellent pick-up. 

[Gerd Becker]

Wonderful medalbar and photos, Roman.

Help me to identify the Orders and Medals on the Officers bar:
Prussian Red Eagle Order 4th class with swords?
Lippe-Detmold 1866 medal
Landwehr Long service cross for 20 years?
Lippe-Detmold Military Merit Medal?

Is that right?

best,

Gerd

[Solomon]

Hello Gerd,

sorry, only two out of four awards were correctly named...the 1866 medal and the Military Merit Medal.
Especially the first one with swords is unique...if I would have shown the award document for it, you still would be confused ;-)
The first one is from Prussia, the the other unknown one is a extremly rare one from Lippe-Detmold.
Just keep in mind that all of his awards were awarded before 1867 ;-)

I will show all documents of Major Kellner II in a seperate topic, because it is worth to go more in details.

Regards
Roman