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I found him on Daniel's Hohenzollern list with a Golden Honour Medal with swords, awarded on April 17th, 1918. It's Musikmeister Theo Sperling, Musikmeister from KB IR 22. He is not on the Baden roll, so that seems to be a self awarded bravery medal.

He got the BV3 as Hauptmann in Prussian Generalstab on August 18th, 1849. Nothing more, sorry.

I still have no idea who that may be. Almost all with BBI1 I can finde had more than RAO1...

No Rick, as I said - a ribbon bar, so no hooks and no traces of decorations ever been worn on it. That style is mostly found on officers, but there were as well some NCOs... and people like paymasters. I think that may be it, a Paymaster. I know where I find Württemberg units, but where to looks for Anhalt people? Only in IR 93?

Thanks heiko. Any opinions or suggestions on the ribbon bar? I'd wonder if it's him, but who else? That Schaumburg merit medal... Is it a Württemberg long service ribbon at all? Looks like, smells like... I found not more than exactly one who received it in Württemberg military, and that's not "my" guy. Apparently he was not yet there when he got it...

Hmm, okay. Though thanks!

How about Hauptmann Richard Graf von Rambaldi, Kompaniechef im KW IR 124 for the W?rttemberg/Brunswick bar? He's the only W?rttemberg officer to receive the Brunswick merit order 3b shortly before WWI, I found no other non-W?rttemberg pre WWI awards for him - and none in WWI. Thanks to Mr. Bretzendorfer and Mr. Krause for listing non-W?rttemberg awards to W?rttemberg military persons. ;)

Do you need more infomation? I might have a citation for his BV3, have to look for if that one is published...

Looks like a phantasy item, at least to me. I think I saw Kaiser Wilhelm I. wear both Iron Crosses. But it may be that bad painted pictures with not much detail on the decorations. However, a repeat bar was of course not instituted until 1915.

Expensive and I fear though no problem to sell - wioth a Russian order in last place. Interresting Thuringian combination. Looks very civilian, doesn't it? Hard to identify, very hard. I doubt it could be done.

Looks fine. Interresting and rare combination to a reserve/landwehr officer.

Ah, thanks Rick for that fast answer. Nice to add some data. Odd bar as he's wearing Prussian precendece, handles the Silesian eagle as if it were Prussian - plus wears his BM4X with the reverse to the front! Great, he died in 1923 and I'm working with 1924 issue... Is that a RAO4Kr? In RL 1913 he has only the BMV4. Not even RAO4. Or might he have gotten it with the crown, and not the crown as a later addition?

Timo, as said - sounds interresting. But not for that thread. Those again other abbreviations... argh... "POH3"... Daniel, don't know if it is of use, but I found one more with HOH3X. Looks like Reichswehr and rather unusual with double Bavarian MVO to a Prussian. Will send you scan @ 300dpi if required. ;)

Your's is an awarded example in zinc. I'm not aware of any other variations issued. There are versions in silver, in silvered brass and I think as well in aluminium, but those are in my humble opinion private purchased "upgrades" of the zinc issue crosses. There was only one class. However, there was another, quite similar looking Prussian award: the "Verdienstkreuz" in gold and silver, instituted in 1912 for civil merits. It is not a higher class of this award.

No, those oaks are actually ment to be for the Ottoman red crescent award, but I don't know their meaning. No one seems to do, from what I've heard. They are an official addition to the award, but I do not know under what circumstances they were given. I have seen them in full size once before. Here on GMIC, as part of a Danish(?) red cross group... :speechless1:

And that Romanian three place bar looks like a Godet. Romanian NCO's bring back from a Berlin trip? WOW! :cheers:

Interresting one, but however, I'm unaware of any MEZ2 given to Blacks. Even back in Wissmann's times those got the (back then) Prussian Kriegerverdienstmedaille, later the "Reichs" issue in four classes.

I cannot see anything bad about it, but ?75 is enough if it is a good one - and that we don't even agree if it's good or bad...

Post #52 - that "Albrecht" ribbon may rather be an Altenburg jubilee medal, so a double Altenburg connection here. War time FAM after a pre war Albrecht cross seems to unlikely to me. Post #50 - may that be a Saxon junior officer with pre war Albrecht and additional war time Albrecht - and nothing more?!

Oh sorry, thought you would have written it down. :unsure:

Finally found it, I think. That thread? http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=34415 I found none that matched, so please, could you give me "your" two?

So do YOU have some more of him? Or would you just like to have... ? I know two more people in Germany that told me to have more. I yet tried to get those but yet without succes. I don't know Bender nor this article. Sounds like JOMSA?! However, if there's an article and he's famous it should be known who he was. If noone knows, how can he be famous? ;)

Very nice ones, especially the Godet bar. Sure it is not identifiable? However, the picture is a bit small, but I'd guess the MVO is a J. Leser made one.

Oh yes, I got some more... and pictures of his wife, of his children... what are those two Names, Rick?

Nice bar, but is that combination of 3b and 3a possible? I'm not sure about it, but there might someone have played with. There was a handfull of bars in "his" collection that had wrong replacements etc.