Bish--did somechecking over at the Wehrmacht-award forums. Before entering the forums--check out Rick Lundstroms article on Ribbon bars.
You will see pics of a few of my ribbon bars there.
The first one is located in the: "Good, bad ans ugly section, which is ribbon bar #3 on that page. It is a 7 place bar with double imperial award. This bar belonged to: The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He was an honorary Colonel-Chef (Colonel-in-Chief) of Bavarian Infantry Regiment 21. The awards on my bar are explained in the paragraph under its picture.
#14 on this page is mine as well--it is a repo.
The Double Freikorps awards I have on the other ribbon bar I mentioned to you are: Balkan Cross 2nd Class, and Sileasian Eagle 2nd Class. This is also very very rare to have double Freikorps awards. This is on a 5 place ww1/Freikorps ribbon bar that I bought for a mere $12.00. The Grand Dukes 7 place bar I have I got for a mere $55.00.
Unfortunately--the 8 place fake shown on the same page--I paid, $70.00 for. The mini devices are real and some made of silver--so it IS worth something--probably about half of what I paid for it--so it isnt a total loss.
Three new ribbon bars I am awaiting arrival on are all Imperial German bars. You can find a great list of ribbon in the research tools on this (Wehrmacht)forum.
One is a 9 place bar with these awards.
1)Unkn 2)Unkn 3)#57 on ribbon chart on the Wehrmacht forums Kaempfer 4) #79 on chart is: Bayern Militarverdienstkreuz 5) #78 on chart: Order of the Star of Romania 6) #66 on chart: Friedrich-August Medaille of Sachsen Kaempferband (which is a high bravery medal of somekind) 7) #59 on chart: Silver Bravery Medal of Romainia? 8) Unkn 9) Usually this color is reserved strictly for Long Service awards, but--this one has a crossed swords device on it--so I think it is somekind of award given tonly to members of the Royal Court or to actual member of the Royal Family themselves.
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6 place Imperial Bar:
1)1914 ek2 2) #66 on chart F-A bravery Medal same one as on the previous ribbon bar 3) #50 on cchart:Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges fur Frontkaempfer 1914-1918 (War Merit Cross for Frontline Fighter) 4) #32 on chart: Osterreichische Repiblik Weltkriegs Errinerungsmedaille 1914-1918 (Austrian War Service Medal) 5) #30 on chart: Ungarische Weltkriegs Erringerungsmedaille 1914-1918 (Hungarian War Service Medal) 6) # 31 on chart: Bulgarische Weltkriegs Erringerungsmedaille 1914-1918 (Bulgarian War Service Medal).
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My 6 place Saxon ribbon bar.
1)EK2 1914 2) #55 on chart: Albrechtsorden (Kingdom of Saxony) Albert order 3) #56 on chart: Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1915-1918 (Kingdom of Saxony) War Service Cross of Saxony 1915-1918 4) Unkn 5) #57 on chart: Kempfer 6) Unkn.
Whats special about this bar is that it has 5 Saxony awards on it--all high awards. This guy was a high ranking officer or a member of the Royal Court. Ill know more about this one and these others--sometime in the future.
Hope you enjoyed reading this Bish--if you get the chance to attempt looking it up on the charts on the Wehrmacht forums--you will be able to imagine somewhat what these ribbon bars im about to reciev--actually look like. You will also see why I like collecting them too.
One can get prizes and still pay next to nothing for them--as you have read here.
