Claudius

I don't think it is a genuine badge. 

The anchor/monogram motif is unusually crude and there are voids.  The enamel is crazed, but is very shiny and yellowed.  The back shows casting features and the hallmarks are unconvincing as struck and look like they were merely impressed.

Hello Don;

Do you have anything more to give on Walter Hübner?  An aeronautical engineer that is also a pilot?  Was he a test pilot?

The unit he was with?  What unit he was with before he became a pilot?  Do you have any documents?

How do you know Walter Hübner? 

wow.

no, I don't like it.  I don't think it is a period piece.  Post, post 1970s.

On ‎5‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 09:38, Claudio said:

Another Godet but with the typical metal label on the back (Weimar republic era,  20ies). This bar is still unidentified.

Enjoy... 

 

 

That's a great looking Frack bar.  Pre-war; Centennial, Red Eagle and Saxon, then wartime; EK2, Wurttemburg and Bremen and then finally sew the whole thing together with a Weimar era Veteran's medal.  That is 20-25 years representing three time periods on this medal bar.

On ‎5‎/‎21‎/‎2017 at 07:10, seeheld said:

I was lucky last week and I got the awarded Seeflieger Badge from Otto Hess.

It is made from Bronze by H. Schaper.

It's looks like he was wearing this badge a long time and he has polished it very often.

Regards Seeheld

 

 

Otto Hess?  How do you know it belonged to Otto Hess?  Are there any other documents?  Photos? 

Nice looking badge.

Hello Mark;

Welcome to GMIC!

The tin is certainly uncommon, and it is nice that you still have the original note inside.  Unfortunately the tin itself is in rough shape.

ebay, with no minimum bid may be a good venue for you to sell it.  It may appeal to variety of different collectors; WWI, old chocolate advertising, Old Cadbury packaging, hospital care of wounded soldiers items.

De nada.

(I hope that is correct expression)

Victor del SEU in bronze

On ‎4‎/‎24‎/‎2017 at 22:32, Chris Boonzaier said:

Hi, it was a nice Somme citation...

Während des Einsatzes der 9. Komp. b. Res. Inf. Rgts. 7 bei Maurepas in der Sommeschlacht am 18.8.1916 zeichnete sich der Inftr. Grieshammer und der Gefr. Mütter durch ganz besondere Tapferkeit aus . Schon während des Tages überbrachten sie im heftigsten Trommelfeuer aller Kaliber verschiedene wichtige Meldungen von der Bataillons zur Regimentsbefehlsstelle . Als dann die Franzosen nach wiederholten Angriffen weiter vorgedrungen waren , eilten sie abermals zurück , trotzdem sie unterwegs mehrfach durch Granaten zu Boden geschleudert wurden , um in der Le Forest Stellung beim Kommandeur des Reservebataillons Verstärkung und Munition anzufordern . Sodann führten sie die Verstärkungen sehr geschickt und unter gewandter Ausnutzung der feuerarmen Räume durch das feindl. Sperrfeuer nach Maurepas vor , so daß sie dort ohne Verluste ankamen . Einige Stunden später meldeten sie sich erneut freiwillig zum Suchen der Krankenträger . Als sie diese infolge des Nebels nicht finden konnten , begaben sie sich beim Hellwerden zur Regimentstelephonstelle und gaben von hier aus die Anforderung nach Trägern weiter . Sodann kehrten sie wieder mit einem Regimentsbefehl , der wegen des feindl. Feuers nicht hatte vorgebracht werden können zum Bataillon zurück .

 

An outstanding report. It's the small details meted out over the entire action that really speaks to situation.

I was aware of WWII Russian pilots that would ram other planes.  There was even a pilot that survived a successful ramming and went to fly and ram again (didn't survive that collision). 

This postcard would suggest that the idea and practice of aerial ramming started in WWI.

Is this supposed to be a text book "square-punch" version? 

hmmmm, (see post 211)  Look to compare to other known square MM examples.

13 hours ago, dond said:

Here is what I'm considering.

Excellent.

Hello Nick;

Those are some great looking crosses!  Nothing to be shy about.  Thank you for showing them.

I wish I could read those battle bars.  I don't remember the last time I saw FIVE bars on a medal bar.  Wow.

A good looking 1st Class!  Thanks for showing.

Ahhh, So you bought it!  I'm glad.  I gave pause myself when I saw it for sale.  An excellent restore project that shouldn't be too daunting. 

I really like the double Schwarzburg awards.  I have a medal bar and ribbon bar set with two Schwarzburgs on them.  It was also missing medals and I restored it using the best information I had.

I look forward to seeing your progress.

thumbs up! 

The collection is really coming together.  The Waldeck medal hanging from swords is a worthy pursuit.

Ahhhh, that's it.  The Krieger-Fechtanstalt badge.  OK, it's not as similar as I remembered.  Here is a photo.

krieger-fechtanstalt photo.docx

That handshake motif really reminds me of a certain Weimar era veterans society badge.  I can't find a photo right now, but I'll try to post it when I see an example.

I just ran across this thread.  So, these are his wedding photos from September 1920?  Three of them still have their pickelhaubes!  The gentleman in a tuxedo on the far right appears to have a throat award and several breast badges?!!  I can't see them very well.

25 minutes ago, Dave Danner said:

Nothin comes to mind. Maybe one of those unofficial Weimar-era WW1 commemorative medals?

21 minutes ago, Freiwillige said:

Maybe... Unfortunatley I found no matching post-war commemorative / veteran association medal

Hmmm, a conundrum indeed. 

I return to my earlier, knee-jerk identification, but will add an additional thought.  In the initial portrait photo the 3rd position ribbon looks remarkably like the Hindenburg cross.  However it is the close-up photo that there appears to be several vertical lines of different colors.  I count as many as 10 or 11.  Could the "lines" we are seeing in the close up photo be caused from the Moire Effect?  Maybe the process of zooming in on the ribbon bar caused a moire.  

Freiwillge, could look at the ribbon bar under a hand held magnifying glass?  No guarantee that the "effect" isn't set in the celluloid, but maybe something can be learned under optical zoom instead of digital zoom.  

7 hours ago, paul wood said:

10 years faithful service in the fire brigade, however the hallmark looks quite odd.

Paul

And are those hallmarks on the pin too? or just blunt trauma?

Those shoulderboards are great, albeit in rough shape.  That just shows that they were worn.

I don't recognize the signature either, but maybe someone else can.