Some ribbon bar medal IDs please....

[Mike K]

Hi,

I can't think what the 2nd ribbon on the top bar might be - light-medium blue with two white (not silver) stripes near the edges. The 3rd ribbon on the top bar (yellow/gold with three dark blue strikes) is Schwarzburg, correct?

On the 7 place bar, what might the 3 blue ribbons represent? I'm guessing the first one might be a KO and the second a LS but I'm not sure about the one that appears to have had a device.

Any/all help appreciated!

Regards

Mike

Obverse...

[Mike K]

Reverse, which shows the colours a little more realistically. The top bar is stamped "DRP"...

[Guest Rick Research]

The first Mystery Ribbon appears to be the Finnish Medal of Liberty 1st Class... but since that would be in the wrong place, it might just as well be the Greek Order of the Redeemer or ???

I'd suppose that the second pale blue on the WW1 bar was from a W?rttemberg Friedrich Order with swords. The wearer has his Prussian stuff "up front" and put the non-Prussian stuff last in "Reichs" precedence. Must gave been a military official.

With that early type ribbon bar, they foleded the device prongs over between the back of the ribbon and the top of the solid tinned backing plate--

hence the "splinters" of the prongs still in there while the device itself has fallen off.

I've got an exactly similar case only for the Baden Military Karl Friedrich Order. Prongs but no green enamel wreath.

[Stogieman]

Couple of rather nice bars Mike!!

[landsknechte]

The first Mystery Ribbon appears to be the Finnish Medal of Liberty 1st Class... but since that would be in the wrong place, it might just as well be the Greek Order of the Redeemer or ???

Not that it makes any more sense on there, but you've also got Bavarian Red Cross decorations on that ribbon.

-C

[Bob Hunter]

I'd second Stogie's remark. Any bar with a Schwarzburg-Rodelstadt ribbon is an unusual and scarce piece.

[Mark M]

Mike

This is a close match but the outer blue is thicker than yours. Plus at one time it appears this one had swords. Like yours, I am not sure what this one is either.

Mark

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[Mike K]

Hi Guys,

Many thanks for the great response!

Good to know I'm not going crazy and that the blue w/ white striped ribbon is an unsual/hard one to ID.

Rick, thanks also for the possible ID on the 3rd blue ribbon. This is the first non-com EK2 ribbon bar I've purchased and the Waldeck (and now W?rttemberg connection) makes it even nore attractive - even if it is a bit tatty! Nice to hear that is also an earlier bar.

Fyi, the backing is actually a very dark blue (not dark brown as per the scan), so I assume navy? Any chance of an ID?

Kind Regards

Mike

[Ulsterman]

Nice bars-the top is the first NON Saxon EK device I have ever seen (that I remember)

and I would cheerfully murder to own the bottom bar-quite a noncombtnt career there.

[Guest Rick Research]

I don't find anybody in the naval corps that I have rank lists for... but there were many obscure branches that remain "invisible."

I'd say the Reuss ribbon is that of the wartime "Medal for Sacrificial Deeds," which despite its name and statutes seems to have ben granted as a war merit award equivalent to the Prussian War Effort Cross etc.

The combination doesn't strike me as naval--

it might even be that of a Feldgendarmerie officer, wearing their civil police uniforms as they did.