Six Place Medal Bar

Product Description: This Six Place Medal Bar is an impressive set of awards, for someone who saw WWI as a combatant and then later likely had a civil service position during WWII. The first award here is a nice 1914 pattern Iron Cross Second Class. It shows light wear to the paint on the iron core, and attractive dark toning to the silver frame. The next award is a 1939 War Merit Cross 2nd Class without swords, which is a wartime made, zinc piece, that retains most of the original bronze finish. There is a Hindenburg Cross with swords, for a WWI combatant, and an attractive and scarce second class Silesian Eagle medal, for service in the Silesian Uprisings after WWI. The Third Reich era 25 year faithful service medal has great original silvering and no damage to the black enamel on the swastika emblem. The last award is a commemorative Rönsahler Wehrverein medal for WWI veterans. Each award is complete with its correct ribbon, each of which is nicely furled and shows light age toning. The medals are neatly mounted to the ribbons, with stitches that go through the backing fabric. The reverse of this six place medal bar features a gray wool backing that is hand stitched in place. The original attachment pin is intact and functional. This is a really interesting group of nice medals, and is in excellent condition.

Historical Description: The German Military had a long tradition of issuing awards for achievements ranging from long service and participation in specific campaigns, to battlefield valor. Some types of awards were to be pinned on the uniform, while others were medals that were suspended from ribbons. On the field uniform, only the ribbons for these medals were to be worn. But for dress uniforms used for parade and walking-out purposes, soldiers wore all of their medals in the form of medal bars that would be pinned to the uniform, on the soldier’s chest. Each medal bar was individually custom made by a tailor or a manufacturer of insignia. They were not issue items, they had to be purchased. These ranged from single mounted awards, to long racks of medals indicating a distinguished career of many years, sometimes with medals from both World Wars and even earlier awards of Imperial Germany. German medal bars were also worn on dress uniforms of civil, political, and paramilitary organizations.

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