Long Service Medals Question

[CHRIS W]

How would someone get a Bavarian and Prussian Long Service awards like this medal bar? Wouldn't the Prussian being 25 year supercede the lesser Bavarian?

Chris

[CHRIS W]

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[notned]

Nice Bar Chris!

What is the first medal??? looks great with the Crown..

Maybe the Old soldier was a proud Bavarian and thats why the Bavarian Long service is ahead of the prussian?

Just my guess...

[CHRIS W]

I am also wondering about the first medal. The bar is Ebay.

[Guest Rick Research]

The problem is probably that being hook-backs, what was on there originally is now lost, so what has been put on looks weird.

The first award is Cross of the General Decoration with Crown, generally given for, and I quote the statutes, "a gazillion years of service so lowly paid that the wearer can never retire." Ahem. But that's about true, really.

The 1897 would seem to precude this being a civil servant, making this a military bar.

That being the case (if the Bavarian IX isn't simply a replaced ribbon where once an 1870 Medal was), the combination suggests a BEAMTER.

Even in the Imperial NAVY, many military officials held army dR/dL commissions for the prestige that gave their lowly lives. It allowed them to lug around swords with portepees that normally they couldn't have otherwise. So there are quite a few naval officials who ended up with non-Prussian Reserve-Landwehr Decorations with "full time" Prussian long service awards... after WW1.

This doesn't look like a post-war bar, though.

But it must have been, assuming no ribbons were replaced, that KIND of a person...

and just NOT the Bavarian IX and Prussian XXV that happen to be hanging on there now. One or the other must surely have been an LD2.