Chris Boonzaier

to nail it... these are the ones the guys have sent to date...

Hi Andreas, I traded it years ago.... it was a good one, someone had it in a vice and the marks were on both sides... I think they had it in the vice when they redid the ring...

all is fair in love and war..... ;-)

Hi, Does anyone have anything on a Lt M Wagner, 6 Garde Inf Regt? Enjoy this little jewel....

Has anyone ever seen a soldier in a MG-Scharfschützen-Abteilung refered to as a "Scharfschütze" ? From what I have seen, a MG Gunner is mostly "Schütze" on his documents... A "Scharfschütze" as far as can see always referes to a Sharpshooter of the sniper style? Best Chris

I had a Burger and French Fries yesterday for lunch... i dont usually, but I did... and them ihad a visetor, and my Wife said, "fend for yourself" so i made Pizza. Was i right? No. Am i loosing sleep? No. But i know it was somthing that was not good.... well, it was at the time... Do you guys know this ? ;-) Apply it to SA... it works..... ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg48ZZ2wYfM

What can one say..... other than WOW! That is about a nice a group to have in the family as one could ever imagine......

I would seriously pay 10-15 pounds for "original" ribbon, maybe more.... And i would rather leave medals without the terrible modern 14-15 star or victory ribbon... So if there was good copy ribbon... something in between? What i cannot understand is, buying a DSO or MC group.... then mounting it with terrible modern ribbon....

"I don't deny them the right to anything but I had no other point of reference growing up that what happened around me was anything but normal. It may sound naive, but yes I was." Agreed... If I could timewarp my kids back to cape town in the 1980s and let them grow up there.... I would in a second... I would feel a little guilty... but at the end of the day egoism may just win through. But like I said.... it had no real long term survivability.... Is there anywhere in the world where a Minority rules and a majority just shuts a f up? Any other countries that had that were caught up in the Arab Spring. Did the Rhodesians make a major error in not having an educated Black Middle class? Personally i think so.... To run a country you need a middle class who have too much to loose if things go pear shaped... South Africa seems to have one in place, as Strapper says... "Which reminds me of a meeting I had some 15 years after independence with a black captain of industry, who was shot in the neck during the Soweto riots of 1976. In a top management workshop he asked me" Its a guy like that, with a house, a BMW, and money in the bank, who has an interest in seeing things "Work" Best Chris

I am guessing making this is one of the crafts which has died and will never come back, like proper stone masons or woodworkers etc. etc.

I just bought a fantastic one of a kind award to a man already KIA.. the only example I could ever find... awarded 1914, with a KO EK2 ;-) There is a dude selling on german ebay, always a cross and EK doc... has about 10 sets on the go...

Thats a scarce ersatz.... strangely enough, I have just the same and it also just happens to have stamps.... 3.E.M.G.K.299 or 3.F.M.G.K.299 I have another unit stamped Bayonet somwhere... ALSO MG unit.... im fact, most stamped ones I see are MG units for some reason...

He got it, best Chris

I must admit... i like them..... Any idea which is the earlier furniture?

Why do you have two???

If it had been an 800 marked domed cross, would it suggest the same? :-) I dont argue the dating of the FRs as I have no idea, but I am always veeeeeery sceptical about single documents married to single medals. Most EKs sold with single docs on Ebay are from one seller, and he has any doc with any cross. OF COURSE if does not mean that all such kombis are bogus, but it pays to be sceptical...

Hi what unit was he in in ww1?

I think it must be 304, fighting in the Bois at avocourt and Bois Camard.... Here is one to a soldier who fought in the same area a couple of years later.... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/180901.html

Hard to read... does it say Cote 304? Cant see in the shadow.... This is also fantastic.... 3 BILA.... or "Bat d'af" http://www.kaiserscross.com/183501/183564.html I have an officers group to them somewhere........ I think 3 BILA as well

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Ages ago I copied a bunch of pics from somewhere... I think it was a forum... Does anyone know whose crosses they are? They are all on the sam rainted surface....

Wow. . I would have done a back flip to get thst lot!

Is this a comman photo, seen all over, or a private one? Thanks Chris

This is interesting, as you can se, it was made for all the surrounded ports/areas after the invasion... and could be forwarded to the families, the men could send a message by Funk, and let folks know they were ok...

Here is a silver one I used to have, the loop was repaired... it was also a Reis one...