3 Place Medal Bar – w/ EK2 & Annexation Medals

Product Description: A well-composed 3 Place Medal Bar – w/ EK2 & Annexation Medals, comprising an Iron Cross Second Class (EK2), the Austrian Anschluss Medal, and the Czechoslovak Annexation Medal. The medals display attractive, even patina consistent with age, while the ribbons show light, honest wear, indicative of period use and careful preservation.

The reverse is backed with green wool, retaining its original pin and catch, both intact and functional. Overall, this 3 Place Medal Bar – w/ EK2 & Annexation Medals presents as a pleasing and historically representative grouping, offering collectors a solid example of early-war German medal bars with desirable campaign and political decorations.

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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