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05-08-2012 03:23 AM
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
Looking for the photo albums of Leutnant Emil Freitag, 3. / G.R. 377
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
Thanks for sharing those items. I especially like the Bavarian medal bar. The rather crude "homemade" add-on may not be brilliant craftsmanship, but it gives the piece real character.
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
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HPL2008
Thanks for sharing those items. I especially like the Bavarian medal bar. The rather crude "homemade" add-on may not be brilliant craftsmanship, but it gives the piece real character.
Thanks for the comment,I love the homemade addition as well
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
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don_kihotis7
Very nice bars
Thank you
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
Time for another little update to include various purchases made since my last post.
First, a ribbon bar of a proud WW1-veteran who has also made some (non-combatant) contribution to the war effort in WW2:
The ribbons are, from left to right, the KVK2 (without swords), the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer and the Hungarian and the Bulgarian WW1 commemorative medals.
Next a ribbon roll (Bandrolle) with the KVK2 mit Schwertern and the Ehrenkreuz für Kriegsteilnehmer:
(On the back are remnats of glue and some kind of red material to which the item was apparently once glued for display purposes.)
And, finally, three ribbon bows (Bandschleifen):
The decorations they represent are:
- Top left: KVK2, the 1914/18 Ehrenkreuz and the Ostmedaille. Due to the nature of this type of mounting, we cannot really tell whether the swords device identifies the Frontkämpfer class of the Ehrenkreuz, the swords class of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz or both.
- Top right: 1914 EK2, Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer, some Prussian or Third Reich-era long service award (a number of which shared this blue ribbon) and the Olympia-Ehrenzeichen or Olympia-Erinnerungsmedaille. (These, too, shared the same ribbon. On a ribbon bar, the Ehrenzeichen was distinguished by an eagle device.)
- Bottom: Ehrenkreuz für Kriegsteilnehmer and the Prussian Rote-Kreuz-Medaille III. Klasse
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
Andreas nice additions.
How are you displaying your awards? Do you frame them?
Looking for the photo albums of Leutnant Emil Freitag, 3. / G.R. 377
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
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don_kihotis7
How are you displaying your awards? Do you frame them?
No; they are actually not so much displayed as tucked away in a cabinet.
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
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HPL2008
No; they are actually not so much displayed as tucked away in a cabinet.
Is that by request from a wife pehaps ?
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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Re: The 1914/1918 Ehrenkreuz
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Woolgar
Is that by request from a wife pehaps ?
No, actually, more for protection against sunlight. Although, truth be told... should I ever attempt to frame them and hang them on the dining room wall instead of the mediterranean scenes and ceramic ornament thingies, I am certain I would meet with some very serious resistance, indeed.
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