Gordon Williamson

Königsberg

The "K" Class

Karlsruhe

The Light Cruisers. The oldest of these was Emden.

Blücher

Prinz Eugen

Some nice photos... and some scarce tallies...

Are all of them in your collection?

The photos came from a Kriegsmarine sailors album but were the type available commercially at the time. I've seen several of the same type in different albums. They are all around 10 inches long and about 4 inches wide a standard format for these.

I had the ribbons for virtually all the named ships, but they've all gone apart from a small handful. Now I only go for the U-Boat ones.

I stopped this half way through as I had to try and hunt down the photos of my Blucher and Prinz Eugen ribbons which I still haven't found.

I'll just put the ships photos in for now and add the ribbons for these two later, then I can get on and add the light cruisers.

Yes, definitely a Deumer

I could be wrong, but I don';t like the look of that GODET mark on the reverse.

Yes, it looks fine. The second type RKs also have a more prominent maker mark.

If by "flat catch" you mean the integrally cast retainer block, this is a perfectly valid second type for the RK badge. Relatively scarce compared with the first type with wire retaining catch.

These lightweight and tropical jackets weren't only worn in the Med or other hot areas, but were in general wear even in the North Atlantic. It could become oppressively hot within the confines of a U-Boat. The leather jackets/trousers you see U-Boat men wearing were only when on deck /on the tower whilst on watch etc. When inside the submarine lightweight clothing was usually worn.

In really hot areas, as often as not the men wore shorts and canvas shoes and nothing else.

Exceptional photo Chris !! Thanks for sharing

Very, very nice photo Terry !

Yummy

I have never come across fakes of these so I would say it is a goodie. Japanese miniatures are very scarce since they did not have a tradition of wearing them, hence the only people who ever bothered with them tended to be diplomats or officials who worked outside of Japan and needed them to conform to Western court norms.

Thanks Paul, excellent news. So, it wasn't bad at ?10 then !

Not the same quality, but then much MUCH rarer to enlisted men than commanders--

here is Oberj?ger Gude, Hausknecht, or Meermann of J?ger Bn 5:

I was hoping someone might have a nice shot of a lower ranking bod with the 1870 EKs. Shoulda known it would be Rick !

Generalleutnant Bernhard Rathgen (1847-1927), here as Commander of the 4th Foot Artillery Brigade has appeared before

but for obvious reasons I really like his medal bar!

All that AND the Order of the Sacred Treasure too !!! Fabulous.

I haven't seen much in the way of miniatures of Japanese awards. Picked this up recently for a song so its not a big deal either way, but does anyone have any opinions whether this is good or bad.

My copy, shown before, and here with an other picture of the reverse:

It weighs 36,4g and measures just 45,4mm x 36,8mm

Regards

Uwe

Interesting that they are using Steinhauer marked pins on Juncker marked badges. Not too bright.

Gordon, isn't that Wilhelm I, Deutscher Kaiser u. K?nig von Preussen?

Regards, Hardy

Of course you are correct, uploaded the wrong photo, this is Friedrich Karl, with Prinzen EK2 on bar.

And EK1

Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia with nice Prinzen EK2

Nice crisp detail, pity the ribbon covers the Crown.

Von Mackensen

Close up

I love these old photos and am always amazed at just howmuch detail can be made out.

General von Einem with 1870 EK2 and 25 Oaks