WTK: What the Kluck?

[filfoster]

What medals are on his medal bar?  I can make out:

1. 1870 EK2nd, with oak leaves

2. Officer 25 yr long service cross

3. 1870-71 campaign medal with bars:  Which ones?

4. 1866 cross

5. SW Africa medal: assume non combatant

6 Centennial medal

7. Some kind of Lippe medal? 

[VtwinVince]

Certainly looks like either a house order of Schaumburg or an honour cross of Detmold, going to be pretty difficult to guess without some written cross-referencing.

[filfoster]

If someone has a pre-war rangeliste that would do it.

[Daniel Krause]

http://prussianmachine.com/aok/kluck.htm

 

Lippe cross of honor 3rd class with swords.

Old model, awarded from both duchies as a common decoration.

 

Best,

Daniel

[filfoster]

Thank you Daniel (again!).    I have never seen a copy of it. If I copy this medal bar, that will be the most difficult one to get. 

[filfoster]

Does anyone know, or can you decipher, the bars for his 1870-71 campaign medal?

[saschaw]

20 hours ago, filfoster said:

I have never seen a copy of it. If I copy this medal bar, that will be the most difficult one to get. 

It might be helpful the older type looks technically the same as the later one from Lippe (-Detmold), with their major difference being the initials in the reverse's(!) center...

 

 

[filfoster]

1 hour ago, saschaw said:

It might be helpful the older type looks technically the same as the later one from Lippe (-Detmold), with their major difference being the initials in the reverse's(!) center...

 

 

I think it will be hard to find a copy of either, with swords.

[filfoster]

Anyone make out the battle bars on the 1870-71 campaign medal?

[Dave Danner]

5 hours ago, filfoster said:

Anyone make out the battle bars on the 1870-71 campaign medal?

 

As an IR 55 officer, his Gefechtsspangen should be:

 

SPICHERN  [also spelled SPICHEREN]
COLOMBEY-NOUILLY
GRAVELOTTE-ST. PRIVAT
METZ

[filfoster]

Thank you! I should send you a PayPal for all the help you've given me. Best, Phil

[filfoster]

Anyone know of a source for a good reproduction of the COLOMBEY-NOUILLY clasp?