Poulton Palmer

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Nice stuff!

Dear sirs,

last month I did a little tour in the Ardennes. This is a nice museum with a dito collection, located in Baugnez, where Americans were shot by a unit under command of the famous Jochen Peiper. Recommendable.

In the first picture we can see the original boots from General Patton.

Greetings,

Poulton

Chris B. popped me over a wonderful surprise and most generous gift... this award document for a Black Wound Badge.

My first WB document and funny enough, the day it arrived I ended up getting an EK with it's original award document so now these are my only two Imperial award documents.

My deepest thanks to Chris for his extremely kind gift!

Dan

A nice one Dan!

Maybe the start of a collection of Imperial award docs!

Greetings,

Poulton

The helmets were found in a concrete bunker?

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!

Don't agree in this: I think more, maybe most, of the awards on this bar, are fakes. The big Austrian medals, the Oldenburg cross probably are... the Silesian eagle of course as well.

I do think the most are real ones. I will double check this off course !! I follow your example: bad ones in a box and Vtwin's advice also, maybe I can use the good ones for other purposes.

Thanks for your replies,

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.

And here a few more things:

The two campaign crosses I like especially, they are not so common, they have another form than the ones you see more often. On the little miniaturechain, you can see them as well, in the same form. They come from the same grouping. unfortunately I didn't got the White Falcon. Maybe I will find one somewhere else in 2011. If someone wants to sell his, please let me know!!!

The two crosses were Spangenstücke. The fool who has cut this Spange into pieces should be courtmartialed and shot instantly!!

The big spange misses two medals, can someone help me by telling what the missing medals probably would be?

Poulton

Here are a the most important German WWI spanges I have bought lately.

Hello Claudio,

nice bar!!!

What medal is the right one (cross with swords)?? Gamble: Finnish?

Greetings from Bruges,

Poulton Palmer

Now with pictures:

mistake.

Hello Ibrahim,

I saw your request.

I happen to have quite a lot divisional and regimental histories in my posession (German WWI and WWII). Also the 79.ID.

I believe it has been mentioned in the post before.