Bundesrepublik 1957 / W.German Medal Bars

[Grant Broadhurst]

Here are some 1957 Medal Bars i have , Post yours !

Firstly a 2 place KvK2 with swords and a 4 yr medal .

[Grant Broadhurst]

EK2 with a Niedersachsen Storm Flood medal from 16 February 1962 .

[Grant Broadhurst]

3 place bar :

EK2 , KvK2 with swords and Ostvolk 2nd class with swords

[Grant Broadhurst]

And finally a 4 place bar :

EK2 , KvK2 with swords , Russian front and 12 yr long service .

Thanks for looking and please feel free to post your 1957 / West German Bars !

[DavidM]

Hello

Very nice Grant Regretably I don't have any 57 medal bars as yet, but looking at these I feel this gap in my collection will be rectified soon !!

Thanks for showing them.

[Grant Broadhurst]

I look forward to looking at more 1957 lovelies you,ve snapped up !

[Hauptmann]

Hi Grant,

FANTASTIC! WOW! What I wouldn't give short of my soul for some of those bars... simply beautiful. I'd never even seen mounted bars of 57's till just now... guess I always assumed they had them but never really gave it much thought.

Hey, you ever decide to part with any or come up with any extras let me know and I'll dig and scratch and see if we can work something out. Now to go dig change out of the couch!!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Dan

[Christian L]

interesting!

but what happend to the eastern peoples award?

it looks like it has a little "moved" hanger, isn't off the normal position?

christian

[Paul R]

Nice Bars Grant!! I like the bar with the 1962 Flood Service medal. Do you have any bars with a combination of Bundeswehr medals and TR? I love seeing mixed bars like that!!

Paul

[Grant Broadhurst]

interesting!

but what happend to the eastern peoples award?

it looks like it has a little "moved" hanger, isn't off the normal position?

christian

Hi ,

Yes it is a factory error , they have attached the ring to a sword tip instead of in the middle of the swords making it look tilted .

Regards

Grant

[Grant Broadhurst]

Nice Bars Grant!! I like the bar with the 1962 Flood Service medal. Do you have any bars with a combination of Bundeswehr medals and TR? I love seeing mixed bars like that!!

Paul

Sorry Paul the flood medal is the nearest i have to a mixed 1957 / Bundeswehr medal bar at the moment !

[DonC]

Here's one of mine, with a Bulgarian Military Merit Order 5th Class:

Edited May 2, 2006 by DonC

[Hauptmann]

Here's one of mine, with a Bulgarian Military Merit Order 5th Class:

Hi Don,

Ooooooooh! Enamel!!!! Me LIKE!!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Dan

[DonC]

It looks better on a tunic - I'll post some more when I get home.

Don

[Grant Broadhurst]

Looking forward to seeing close ups of her Don .

I bid on her when she was on Ebay but she went way past my budget !

[DonC]

Hi Grant -

Yeah, I was enamored of the enamel ( ) and just had to have it. I figured I probably would not see that combo ever again. It is a super-quality piece with all early medals - there is a huge difference between these and the later stuff that came out in the 70's. Here's a better shot on my piped arty tunic and one of a five-place bar with the Finnish Cross of Liberty:

Edited May 3, 2006 by DonC

[DonC]

Enamel:

[Mossy]

Oooohh! Nice! Can't imagine that Bulgarian military merit being too cheap. Does the medal differ alot from the original war-time verison?

Sam.

[Hauptmann]

Enamel:

Hi Don,

Many thanks for sharing those on the uniform. Simply magnificent!!!!

Absolutely love them both!

Thanks!

Dan

[Grant Broadhurst]

Nice bars Don

Yes the good thing about the medal bars is that mostly they were made for vets usually in the late 50,s early 60,s so they could wear them on their Bundeswehr uniform and so have nice early quality awards on them . Later made up bars are starting to appear but are easy to spot with silly combo,s .

[DonC]

Hi Sam -

My guess is that the Bulgarian MMO is actually wartime produced. Incredible detail, and I can't see the W. Germans tooling up to produce an award of that quality postr war - the Bulgarians certainly weren't churning out "Fascist" awards under the Sovs. None of the ribbons on the bar glow badly under black light, so I think wartime ribbon was used. The detail on all the medals on that bar are fantastic - the 5 place bar is a later one, and the difference in the medal quality in regards to strike, especially on the LS awards, is marked.

Don