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  eBay Fakes

  By VtwinVince · Posted 1 hour ago

  I looked at that one as well, and my 'Bauchgefuehl' tells me it's a Bastelarbeit.
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  House Order of Hohenzollern - info needed

  By webr55 · Posted 1 hour ago

  Daniel, I have to disagree completely. We are not high school students here who don’t know how to do archival work. You cannot dismiss all those as “secondary sources”. In that case you can throw all the cases that me and others have found in newspapers throughout the last years into the dustbin. You could have said this right away, that you don't like our second class sources: "I am quite suspicious about any Reserve or Landwehr or Non-Prussians mentioned somewhere with the HOH3X, which are not listed in the MilKab-File or where we do not have any official source.  I am quite sure, there were plenty of nice little mistakes in the old newspapers." If you had said that right away, it would have spared me and many others here a lot of time. And then I don’t want to be part of this project anymore.    You don’t seem to have any argument against my theory, you are just repeating what you said before. There is nothing that rules out that full colonels could have received the HOH3X at the late stages of the war. And you could not dismiss all my 5-6 such cases listed in this thread. One or two might be mistakes, but not five or six. Launhardt's obituary came from one of the most prestigious German newspapers. It has a lot of details, must have been compiled by someone with intimate knowledge of his career, most probably someone from his regiment or other unit. To simply ignore this, is just arrogance, sorry.    You still seem to think there are some genuine “sources” against which you can check whether someone “really” got the HHOX. There is not. There is much more uncertainty, in German sources as well as elsewhere.    I would like to remind you: years ago, YOU asked for help here.     
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  Royal Niger Company's Medal 1886-97

  By Rusty Greaves · Posted 1 hour ago

  A current Liverpool Medals listing included a named Royal Niger Company Medal, bar Nigeria, officially numbered 19 (https://www.liverpoolmedals.com/product/royal-niger-company-medal), accompanied with good quality photo.     The description reads:    "Royal Niger Company Medal, bar Nigeria, officially numbered “19”, a very rare medal to locally recruited forces serving under the Royal Niger Company.    Produced and named by Spink & Son circa 1899 on behalf of the Royal Niger Company.   Rim officially impressed with the number “19”.   A very low issue number, corresponding to that of Private Awudu Dishi, who served in the Royal Niger Constabulary at the time.   He would receive from the British Government the matching East and West Africa Company Medal, with clasp Nigeria.   Only about 1,000 of these medals were issued numbered in Bronze at the time to the locally employed Soldiers and Police in the region.   The 1000 medals were numbered between the ranges of 1 and 2342, however it would only be issued to such a small number of recipients as they had to be still in the employment of the Royal Niger Company at the time of the medals issue to be given the medal.   Right as the medal was being issued, during 1899, the Royal Charter for the Royal Niger Company was revoked, the British Government purchasing all their territories owned by the company, forming the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria."   The image on the Liverpool Medals listing is high-resolution, it can be zoomed for additional details.       
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  Wehrmachtbeamte-Heer

  By Meyszner · Posted 2 hours ago

  Nice to see more posts! No worries, I meant another of Prof. Hackenberger. Very interesting to see the passage of time through someone's career like that.   Do I spy a first model breast eagle, on Feldgrau? Fascinating photo.   And they didn't wear the alt-Preußische style of the Generalstaboffiziere? Who did then?
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  Unknown Merite Militaire medal

  By No one · Posted 4 hours ago

  Dear Gentlemen,   I think it is the " Médaille du Mérite Militaire / Medal of Military Merit " du FROLINAT. FROLINAT - Wikipedia     There is another one, same bar but different ribbon and obverse named "Honor Medal of the National Liberation Front" (Frolinat) 1966 - 1993     Yours sincerely, No one