Suspensions, Ribbons, Ribbon Bars And Order Of Precedence.

[Dave]

Sebastien:

Thanks for the shot at the ribbons! That certainly clarifies some of them- I'm slowly but surely putting together what everything is!

Now if I could just figure out a way to post up an image the similar size of your posting of Koldunov! (Mine max out at that tiny size!)

What's interesting is that you note that one of the DDR awards should have the miniature attached... His Hungarian Orders of the Red Flag should also have devices attached, but none are, or were ever.

This is something interesting to note... In the 400+ photos I have of Koldunov (99.5% all in uniform from the 70's and 80's) I only have ONE photo of him wearing the Hungarian devices on the ribbons! All the others he has the plain ribbons, even though they should have had the devices. I would guess that he was probably only awarded one set of 'actual' ribbons for the awards, and the rest were just what was 'in stock' at the zavod that made his ribbon groupings later! (Probably didn't carry a large stock of foreign ribbon devices!)

Thanks again for your help!

--Dave