paddywhack

some info on your uboat!! http://www.uboat.net/history/wwi/part5.htm

hhhmmmm how long before they turn up as real!!!what price were they going for?

although i cant add anything to the descusion about the medal itself i can say my grandad(who sadly died 2 years ago) was 7 at the time of the easter rising and was on dollymount strand when it all kicked off and remembers the trams coming out of the city all shot up! actully later on during ww2 he worked for the goverment billiating(?) irish troops around ireland and help design and place the only german war graves site in ireland! was intresting to find that out!!

which fair was it? the northstar or teachers club? were they being sold as original or repo?

i think personly the most interesting part is he was commander of a hydroplane squadron in 1929!!!!! now THAT must be interesting!great research to!!

after getting the citation to my uncles MC knowing what the medal you have was awarded for just brings it alive!! thats why soviet stuff is great!you can find out the history behind it!!! nice medal and citaction!all good!!

yup thats the one!and actully i LOVE it!!! dont think shes ugly at all!!!

aaacchh i know how you feel!! my near MINT junkers aux cruiser badge is as i said was near mint barr the fact that someone very VERY expertly die-nazified it!!you have to look hard to even see the naughty swastika was ever there!! and yup the catch had been slightly bent to!!! SWEET badge!!!

sorry for the reaaalllllly stupid question but what were these award for?was it state service for the old style ones(of which i have one!) and the new ones for combat in ww1? sorry for my lack of knowledge im only getting getting back into impy stuff now!!!!!

although not a tank i was on holiday with me folks back in i think 97/98 and we were going downa motorway to the supermarket and there to my left was a fairly ganet!! well after me and me dad dropped off my sisters and mum we spent half an hour find where it was and chatted with the owned! was VERY cool! i even toke pics but as is always the case i can find em now!!!

and all lovely lovely bars!!never drink and trade kids!!never drink and trade!! i kid!!sorry to see them leave but i got a good deal to!!all good!!

eeeerrrr thats not a collection its a meusem!!!and a fecking great one at that!!!!!!!!!

thanks guys!! now i just gotta get pics of my lids and caps!!!!

coool!!! they are the same!! i bet yours is the replacment for my onbe!!!!!! but yeah erik all the soviet awards are real!!i got lucky on the nevesky!i was in the right place at the right time!!got it ?120 irish pounds so ALL good!!!!

sadly iv none to add but i DO have to say i want one i want one i want one i want one i want one!!!!!

yeah i do have to say the soviet stuff does display well indeed!must be all that real gold and silver!!!!! and i like the kriesmarine to!the sboat badge was heavly "modified" by the vet as it was vaulted and the hull painted red! iv always wondered did ever get "some" as a result!!!

i know i know i know but its just getting my arse in gear and actully doing it!!!!thanks for the reply though!!

last up is my evil empire section!yup its my soviet section!!!!iv also got all of the defensive of capture of and liberation of medals but dont have pics!!!hope you like em!!

next the kreisgmarine portion of my collection!just need the 2 sub clasps and a minesweeper!!

next up is the icky zinky third reich stuff!!!!iv since added a bronze ccc to the display so iv got all 3 grades of them now!!all good!!!

next is my ribbion bars!!! not the best of pics but you get the idea!!

well thought id show my somewhat messy collection to! its only some of it mind!got to get pics of my caps lids uniforms and other world(ooohhh sounds so alien!!!!) medals etc!! but first up is my impy collection!!!!the ek2nd and black wound badge were the first things i ever bought so they will be the last to go!!!oh and the pilots badge isnt real and the retired pilots badge might be real!!! hope you like em!!!

cool!!can we see the full pic??

love the collection!! and its not messy your just like me you like shiny stuff!!!!! all good!!!

and zee other one!! il pics of the other at the weekend!!!!(my scanners in BITS at the mo!!)