A small 4X bar from Saxe-Weimar

[Bob Hunter]

[attachmentid=2892]What makes this bar interesting is the scarce Silver Merit Cross to the White Falcon Order.

[Bob Hunter]

and the reverse.

[Stogieman]

Outstanding Bar Bob! Sax-Weimar pieces from the White Falcon (in any grade) are very hard to find!

[Guest Rick Research]

What's the complete inscription on the Red Cross medal? That is yet another of the seemingly endless UNCATALOGED semi-official awards allowed for wear... but not in any of the Official Awards reference books!!!!

[Bob Hunter]

Gothic is tough enough in print but when it is part of a die some letters can be impossible. At least I find it so. Well beyound my humble trifocals! I can't guess at a several letters so I will just post three different closeups for your perusal.

The award was described to me as a Merit Decoration of the Thuringian State Association of the Red Cross 1st Level. It is maker marked on the reverse with the name R. Conrad, Weimar.

[Bob Hunter]

view 2

[Bob Hunter]

view 3.

[landsknechte]

I found this website quite by accident some time ago, and is the best resource that I've been able to find online that deals with German Red Cross decorations:

http://www.richardajordan.com/Red_Cross/GermanStatesRK.html

--Chris

[Gerd Becker]

Bob,

its "Th?ringer Landesm?nnerverein d. Rt. Kr.(des Roten Kreuzes, could be v. "vom Roten Kreuz" too)."

Beautiful bar, btw.

Gerd