Lippe Detmold bar

[CRBeery]

Here is a simple little bar I picked up at OMSA this past summer. Sometimes I see a bar like this and it just speaks to me.

Should I flip the first medal? I know it is technically backwards.

[Utgardloki]

I would flip it, but You can document it was the other way when You got it.

[1812 Overture]

Dear sir, your picture is great! But next second it belongs to me

[laurentius]

The medalbar is lovely, unlike the behaviour of some collectors here....

[jaeger7]

If "the first medal" is the Lippe cross - don't flip it. It is perfectly right.

[Solomon]

Tztztz...lovely nice little bar...everything fits including the swords on the ribbon (showing that the former owner awarded
the silver cross during the war 1870/71 and "awarded" in 1912 as a veteran).

By the way, here is a very similar medalbar from my collection, unfortunately without swords....

Best regards
Roman

[Paul R]

This is the first time Ive seen that medal on a bar.  How many times was it awarded?  Is it a valor medal?

[CRBeery]

392 awards of this cross.

Roman- great bar. I visited your page when I first brought this home. Great resource for collectors!

Edited December 29, 2019 by CRBeery

[Solomon]

On 28/12/2019 at 05:49, Paul R said:

This is the first time Ive seen that medal on a bar.  How many times was it awarded?  Is it a valor medal?

No, not only a valor award, it was also awarded by non-combatants, e.g. teachers.
It was somehow turned into a valor award for the veterans of the war 1870/71 by spending later the swords for the ribbon.

[Paul R]

Thank you Solomon.

[jaeger7]

Here is another - unnamed - bar with the silver honour cross with swords. 

Regards

jaeger7-de

 

[CRBeery]

Very nice piece!

[seeheld]

great medal bar