Poulton Palmer

Hi are my FA medals, they come in three varieties as you can see. The one above has a goldlike finish, the middle one is silver and the two in the bottom are bronze. Don't know the difference between them. Poulton Palmer

Hi Don, nonetheless, he has a 100% rating. Very tricky for starting collectors to divide the good sellers from the bad. I agree fully with Hauptmann his answer: study, study and study! I have bought a few bad pieces myself in the last few years, but I see this as learning money (unfortunately). poulton

Hello Paul, very nice ribbon bar, congrats! Greetings from Bruges, Flanders, Poulton

Hi guys, lately I have seen lots of these Kreuze on german ebay (see link below). This seller has got the four different types. Unfortunately for the buyers, these are fake imo. Last week I have seen one sold for about 140 euro, that is lots of money for such a fake piece. I have seen fakes been sold last year, these were of a lower quality. That were obvious fakes. The ones which are sold this last weeks are of a much better quality, but still fakes which are recognisable. http://www.ebay.de/i...50#ht_500wt_949 Greetings, Poulton Palmer

Hi Eifel45, nice topic, very interesting!!! I have visited some of the places mentioned in your topic, always exciting and with much respect I wander through the forests etc. Mooi gedaan! Groeten, Poulton

Very nice picture Christer! Congrats to have the person identified. Greetings, Poulton Palmer

Hi Alec, nice pieces, especially the VWA condor! greetings from Bruges, Poulton

I have to congratulate you with your outstanding collection!!! The way you display them is superb!! Like Brian said: I am inspired by it to present my medal collection like that.Thanks for sharing,greetings from Poulton.

A nice one Dan! Maybe the start of a collection of Imperial award docs! Greetings, Poulton

Hi TacHel, My french isn't perfect but in the initial mail it said: FOUILLE A XXX DANS UNE ANCIENNE POSITION ALL BETONNEE DE 1914/1918 I didn't know in English it is named a bunker( it is the same in Dutch) so sometimes I use the German word for something. Greetings, poulton

Hi guys, indeed the helmets are said to be found in a german concrete Unterstand and are not being dug up. I should have chosen a better fitting title for this post but I was to hasty posting it. Greetings from Poulton.

Some more pictures.

Dear fellow collectors, I received a mail a few days ago from a french fellow collector. He is a fanatic WWII collecor and knows I am more interested in WWI. He sent me a few pictures from a friend of his who has found a few "things" lately with his metal detector. Look at the pictures and see what I mean: stunning!! Moderator: I don't know if I placed this under the right topic? Greetings Poulton

Thanks guys, glad you like it. I would like to buy some more real officer bars, but they are costly unfortunately. Ostprussenman: I don't have any tunics or named groupings. i do have some litlle german WWII groupings, but nothing special unfortunately. Many greetings from the medieval city of Bruges. Poulton

And level 3.

Here is level 2.

Hello Gentlemen, Today it was a nice day here in Flanders, a good day for spring cleaning my little glass exhibition cabinnet!! Unfortunately I have to little space for all my things so I have to choose which items get in and which do not. Those who didn't make it into the cabinet will be sold. Maybe I will try to sell a few things here at GMIC, don't know yet. Kind regards from Bruges, Poulton Palmer

WOW!! These are stunning!!! Congratulations, these are really interesting Urkunden. Poulton Palmer

Wow! This is a nice item! I am jealous. Congrats. Poulton Palmer

Congratulations with this nice piece! You did an outstanding job!! Good idea to restore destroyed (can't recall a good english word for it right now after having drunk 2 Westvleteren Trappist beers) bars with medals you have already. Keep up the good work! Poulton

VtwinVince and Dond, Thanks for your knowledge and picture of a Spange from the faker. It is indeed strange that he fakes very common medals, but he gets away with it!! I hope some medal collectors will learn from these posts!! Greetings, Poulton!

Dear gents, thanks for your input. This stimulates my thought that I should misten more to my "guts-feeling": about the ribbons I didn't have a 100% good feeling: for example, there are two württemberg ribbons next to each other on the third ribbon, these ribbons differ in colour and wear (how stupid off me!!). And the austrian bar: the back: I thought it was a strangely looking pin and the backing itself was looking too new etc. The medals on the bar are original though, maybe with exception from the Silezian Adler. I don't know where too look at though. It is made from a very light metal. I should better buy things I know a little bit better. Bigger problem is: what do I do with these things? I think I let them stay in the collection and keep them together as fakes. I will not bring them back in circulation because I will not sell other collecors a fake. Luckily the amounts were not too high, so I will get over it. Poulton

Good evening gents, thanks for your replies. Bad news however. The 2 ribbon bars: I had a bad feeling about them already. That from the bar is worse, but I will get over it. Greetings from Bruges, Poulton.

Hi Vtwin, here is one of the back.