Troy Tempest Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Can anyone identify this for me please? I've had it a long time, and always believed it to be some sort of Imperial era item. Any thoughts? Thanks gents!
Ulsterman Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 whoa- can we see the ribbon please? D-K-F-V- Hmmmmmm...Deutscher Kreig F- Verein? Are those the initials of the Kaiser and his bride? Definitively imperial given the crown- but veterans or commemorative?
speedytop Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) DKFA > Deutsche Krieger-Fechtanstalt The badge is for the lowest "rank" in an honouring system > Fechter. With "Fechten" is here not meant fencing! "fechten" is an old German word for "betteln" > begging The members of the organization are begging for orphanages. The more donations they begged, the higher the award. There had been other organizations like this, e,g, the "Fechtanstalt des Deutschen Kriegerbundes". Please see page 116 - 121 scroll up and down: http://books.google......ndes"&f=false Uwe Edited April 22, 2012 by speedytop
Troy Tempest Posted February 24, 2012 Author Posted February 24, 2012 WOW! Thank you Uwe! (and you too Ulstermann ) I am going to buy that book also, I spent ages scrolling through the whole thing. So whoever received this was a Fechtmeister of the Deutsche Krieger-Fechtanstalt! Excellent! Here is the ribbon. 1
Ulsterman Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 very cool. The one thing missing was the Hamburg Ehrenzeichen (Deutschefeldehrenzeichen) but there's a ton of information in the book. There is also a REALLY good book on Saxon veterans associations and I have seen another on Bavarian associations too.
Troy Tempest Posted February 24, 2012 Author Posted February 24, 2012 Hi, would you be able to steer me towards such books please? I am very interested in veterans association membership badges etc, and apart from the book that Uwe has just informed me about, I have not been able to find any titles on the subject.
Ulsterman Posted February 25, 2012 Posted February 25, 2012 The Saxon book is in a box buried deep in my attic and almost impossible to reach at the moment (due to my wifes' house renovations), but a GREAT little book is: "Reservisten In Baden-Wuerttemberg" : Freiburg, 1992 by Andreas Maase and Henning Volle . 3000 examples (privately published). I think it was redone @ 2002. It has no ISBN number. (Abe books.com is a good source)
Troy Tempest Posted February 25, 2012 Author Posted February 25, 2012 Excellent, thanks mate, yet another book on the list :)
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