Chris Boonzaier

I did not think this was even possible??

Nice one Tony, they all look like kids!

I wonder how they differentiated between regiments awarded "kaiser" and "könig" ?

Hi, Achtung! Konig, not Kaiser...

Indeed it does!

Thats a "been there, seen it and done it" set of ribbons!

Hi Eric, that is probable, so far I have only found pics of the small blue badge, and a version of the small blue badge with oakleaves... but no other example of the big one. I have gooled every combination of Leib Regiment Verein Abzeichen Ehrenzeichen etc. etc. ... but Nada. Ditto for the Gold badge.

I dont have a lot, but here are my two.... One on the right was from the group of Generalmajor Hugo von Wenz zu Niederlahnstein (I dont have the group, just some odds and ends.)

Recently picked up these from a group that had been split.... there is the regular pin for the association, made by Deschler.... but also a big badge made by Poellath... which I have never seen before... if anyone knows what it is, or knows anyone who may know... please point them here... This is also very interesting, a 1936 Leiber association reunion badge... combined with a Saarland ceremony....

Hi, I think many awards were shipped in cases that were less than award quality... quite possible that the maker shipped in such a case. If it is Austrian, maybe an austrian member can say if they are typical cases?

Hi, totally normal as the badge was only introduced in 1918... nice print!! Hi, very short war service, wounded at Arras in October 1914, hospitals, then to the Ersatz battalion then released from service in 1916. Was in the 10th Bavarian reserve regiment... unfortunately i dont have the history. For guys wounded/invalided or killed in 1914 there is usually not that much to find. They were not long enough in the unit to make a mark...

What is on the paper in the bottom of the case? Thanks Chris

Hi, for the wristwatches, they seem to be a style that came out just before the war, The Brits and Germans had very similar ones... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_watch

I just picked up this "trench watch"... It seems to be the standard name for WW1 era wristwatches of this sort. Apparently from the Haller company,

Hi, Small world!! I had contacted the seller asking him to put us in contact as I wanted to ask if I could use a copy for a writing project. I got this one for less than half my highest bid, but I was surprised to lose out on the later one!

That is about as good as it gets! Congrats!

Could it be Vereidigt?

Hi Z, Yup, I have a little "Thing" for Gas, but also WW1 in General. Here are a couple of nice things to the German Gas regiment... I also have a sideline connection of gas masks. There is by the way, somewhere online, studies made by the US Army in the 1950s on Gas attacks in WW1... really interesting stuff!

Hi ZZuti! Nice masks, are you especially intereasted in the Gas war?

Looks like the S&L A-Type Micro 800 in THe Knights Cross of the Iron Cross" by Dietrich März. Can you show the lower 3 oclock arm and the Knee in the 9-12 position? Thanks Chris

I dont know why, but this one leaves me weary..... http://www.ebay.de/itm/141707125523?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Anyone know who the commander was at the time?

Is the guy in the middle a Hauptfeldwebel? Some kind of SF?

Hi, I thought SAS wings on the chest had a special meaning of some sort? Best Chris

Captain M.E. Anderson, SAS Wings, South African Pilot wings, member of the SBS

Interesting!! This has a document for a Schutztruppe Officer, repariated on Parol during the war... so he did not serve again in the army, but in November 1918 joined the Garde 2nd Div... I assume that was considered as a "different deal" and not covered by his Parole?