A First War & German Faithful Service Medal Bar Auction Archive A German Submariner's Four Piece

A German Submariner's Four Piece Ribbon Bar

Accompanied by its black-painted metal scabbard

these arrived just in time so that by the following morning

on a 20 year endowment

Giovanni Battero

A First War & German Faithful Service Medal Bar Auction Archive A German Submariner's Four PiecePrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, iron core, magnetic, hallmarked on the ring, 42 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (bronze gilt on iron, magnetic, maker marked "T. H. W." on the reverse, 37 mm); Bavaria: King Ludwig's Cross (blackened bronze, 39. 7 mm x 42 mm); and Third Reich: Wehrmacht Faithful Service Decoration 2nd Class for Twenty Five Years' Service (silvered bronze with black enamels, 40. 7 mm). Mounted to a