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    And finally this unique privately purchased example. I never saw a similar badge! Screwback with mark "800". This is not a badge, it is jewellery but we should never forget, what a Woundbadge means. Especially a golden badge for 5 or more wounds in combat...

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    Then Bavarian General Staff Oberstleutnant Hermann Ritter von Lenz (23 June 1872- 20 December 1959) had received Bavaria's highest award for bravery and personal nobility as "Ritter von" with the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order (9 April 1917), AND Prussia's Pour le Merite (10 August 1918), when a nearly fatal bit of carelessness at the front led to him being shot in the head by a sniper on 2 October 1918. It was his only wound.

    Rick,

    If this document is yours, Detlev sold a PlM on his site today, that is 900 silver marked, described as a post war piece, resembles a Godet type piece, and that it came with the award document. The item was in a glass case that hung on the wall "for the last 50 years" and was acquired by a Berlin dentist who the story goes, got it from the family who used it to pay their bill (it doesn't say it was lenz's family, and the bills were with him?).

    If the PlM and Urkunde sold by Detlev were his....part of a set that should be together got sold today. If you'd been "there' with USD$ 9000 and a -fast- internet connection with an even faster finger on the "trigger" you might have been able to rejoing parts of a set that belonged to Lenz.

    java script:emoticon(':rolleyes:', 'smid_21')

    :rolleyes:

    java script:emoticon(';)', 'smid_28')

    ;)

    Les

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