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05-20-2014 03:29 AM
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Hi Dan,
What makes this bar neat is the addition of the Prague bar. My friend has the medal bar that matches it.
Jody
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Nice pickup. I saw a set containing the long service medal with the Sudentenland medal with the Prague Castle Bar for sale not to long ago, would have gone nicely with those
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Danmark
This one is also soon on its way down under - a nice 3 spot ribbon bar featuring an EKII ribbon, a Luftwaffe long service award ( ? years ) and a 1st Oktober medal with Prague castle bar.
I can't positively identify the color (or original color) of the eagle device on ribbon for the Luftwaffe long service award, but as it is the only armed forces long service award on the bar, it should be the 4th class, i.e. the award four years.
If higher grades were awarded, two of these were worn together. The combinations were:
- 3rd class (12 years) & 4th class (4 years)
- 2nd class (18 years) & 4th class (4 years)
- 1st class (25 years) & 3rd class (12 years)
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Interesting that the 1st & 2nd, or 2nd & 3rd, or 3rd & 4th weren't worn together. Do you know the reason why the combinations 'skipped' a class?
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Glenn66
Interesting that the 1st & 2nd, or 2nd & 3rd, or 3rd & 4th weren't worn together. Do you know the reason why the combinations 'skipped' a class?
The 3rd & 4th actually were worn together (please see my above post).
As for the other two combinations, this was surely due to aesthetic/stylistic considerations.
The 4 classes were:
- 4th class = medal, matt silver
- 3rd class = medal, bronzed
- 2nd class = cross, silver
- 1st class = cross, gold
So, combining the 2nd with the the 4th class and the 1st with the 3rd class both resulted in the wearing of the combination of a cross and a medal. In both cases the decorations - as well as the eagle devices on the ribbon bar - were in similiar/harmonizing colors (silver & matt silver, gold & bronzed).
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Hi Dan
The swords device is on a KVK ribbon not an EK2
Nice bars !
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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