Spange Restoration Queries

[VtwinVince]

Gentlemen,

To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the death of my uncle, Major Dr. Albrecht Ochs, I am going to reconstruct his ordensspange, which consists of the following:

1914 EK2, Ehrenkreuz fuer Frontkaempfer, Oesterreich Kriegserinnerungsmedaille, Ungarn Kriegserinnerungsmedaille, Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938, Wehrmacht Dienstauszeichnung IV Klasse, Treudienst Ehrenzeichen, Deutsch-Italienische Afrika Medaille

I have all the medals, now I need the actual spange hardware to mount them. If anyone has any good ideas as to where I could find this, or how I can make it myself, I'd be very grateful for suggestions.

[Guest Brian von Etzel]

Looking forward to seeing this happen!

[eitze]

I have all the medals, now I need the actual spange hardware to mount them. If anyone has any good ideas as to where I could find this, or how I can make it myself, I'd be very grateful for suggestions.

Hello,

not so easy to get spare plates

I think the only way is ebay - sometimes these are offered single or in groups. But beware, often they become expensive. These pieces are sought after by many collector`s to complete groups.

In the current Germany Army it is no longer common, to wear such a big "Ordensspange".

As far as I know, there is only one firm left here who mount such groups:

http://www.a-bender.de/Home.html

And although the homepage says, that they are official supplier, they do not sell decorations and accessories directly to private customers

So make it yourself or wait on ebay !!

Greetings

eitze

[Daniel Murphy]

I have been thinking about doing the same thing for an officers headgear, uniform, etc. grouping I have. It is something I will keep as long as I live. His WW1 would be a 4 medal, but his WW2 would be a 7. Much harder to do. I am all for you doing this to honor him. If you are any good at metalworking, you may be able to make a very nice period backplate or have someone make it for you. I think that is you best bet, not too many loose backers around that size.

Dan Murphy

[Tom Y]

I believe World Medals

does muntings.

[Mike Dwyer]

I just looked at the German mounting section there http://www.worldmedals.co.uk/Rib/rem.htm and it says they no longer mount medals German court style!

[Ed_Haynes]

Amazed, I'd think there'd be someone out there would make up such FAKE groups.

[VtwinVince]

Thanks, gentlemen, I didn't think it would be that easy to find such a backing plate. I'll probably just make my own. Ed, I'm not sure how to take your comment. I'm producing something for my own personal display, and yes, it is a "fake" group, but not meant to deceive. Hope I'm not being overly sensitive here. On another note, could you learned experts tell me the correct mounting precedence for these medals? I have two of the major's ribbon bars, but both are clearly pretty wacky with precedence, and I'd like to get it right.

[Paul C]

This maybe helpful for a backing plate:

http://cgi.ebay.de/Ordensspange-10-er_W0QQ...1QQcmdZViewItem