3 award button hole

**LondonJay** · 07-19-2011, 07:30 PM

Hi, thought I'd show you this little diamond I picked up for a few quid.
a three award button hole.
KVK with swords, EK2 and Ost medal.
It's in great nick and I couldn't resist it!
Jay

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-19-2011 07:30 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**HPL2008** · 07-19-2011, 07:39 PM

Very nice.

I have always liked those buttonhole ribbon bows and -rolls. (See here for mine:
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/order...ribbons-26345/ )

**Adrian** · 07-20-2011, 12:23 AM

Nice combination, I've never seen this configuration of ribbon, would it be called a Bandrollen or something else?

**HPL2008** · 07-20-2011, 06:05 AM

by Adrian

Nice combination, I've never seen this configuration of ribbon, would it be called a Bandrollen or something else?

No, this one would be classified as a Bandschleife [ribbon bow].

A Bandrolle [ribbon roll] would have the three miniature ribbons rolled up and next to one another, almost like a miniature ribbon bar.

Example:

**LondonJay** · 07-20-2011, 06:37 AM

Thanks for the replies.
I wondered what the correct name for them was!
Jay

**Adrian** · 07-20-2011, 08:21 AM

by HPL2008

No, this one would be classified as a Bandschleife [ribbon bow].

A Bandrolle [ribbon roll] would have the three miniature ribbons rolled up and next to one another, almost like a miniature ribbon bar.

Thanks Andreas,
I wasn't sure as they look more rolled than bow shape.

**Troy Tempest** · 07-20-2011, 08:32 AM

Okay, check this one out! Sorry about the poor photo, I am getting a new camera that will be able to focus reeeeeeal close soon! EKII/Hindenburg Cross/Wound badge

Out of interest, is this called a Bandrolle too?

**Adrian** · 07-20-2011, 08:42 AM

Nice trio. I'm guessing this would be called a Bandschleife (Ribbon bow) as above.

**HPL2008** · 07-20-2011, 07:41 PM

by Adrian

Nice trio. I'm guessing this would be called a Bandschleife (Ribbon bow) as above.

Yes; that's right.

By the way, it's of a type whose manufacture and sale was no more permitted by later regulations, which specified that no more than one ribbon was allowed to be worked into a Bandschleife (while a Bandrolle could hold up to three) and that a combination of miniature metal decorations/badges with a Bandschleife was not allowed.

[I don't know the date for these regulations, but the allowed and prohibited types of buttonhole miniatures are explained nicely in the final (1945!) edition of Dr. Doehle's "Die Auszeichnungen des Großdeutschen Reiches", which is available as a reprint.]