Chris Boonzaier

photo not that great....

They are the ceremonial guards for the parlaiment I think

Nooo way... minutes in and 5 bids already

I am bidding on a document for one of these on German ebay... does anyone know if the citations are availible? (and what do youse think the doc will cost?) Thanks Chris

All over the place....

Good stuff, thanks. The bottom row left.... I think it may be police? I saw coppers with these crossed pistols on their collars? Best Chris

The gats are a bit different....

recognise these uniforms...

I have no idea what they are... they are Colombian... A single ribbon, then two bars with two rows on each... I just took the ones with devices.... Does anyone collect these and know what they are?

An interesting piece. I saw it a few times on a dealer site, but them lost the URL. best Chris

Ahhh.... the pinnacle of German battalions :-))))) I love that unit !

Hi, put a gun to my head and I could not even begin to guess what any of those is/is for..... can someone educate me?????? Thanks Chris

Fritz Haber comes to mind. The Nazis came as a big shock to him as he was as German as a German could be. Apparently a text book Prussian. http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chem...ases/haber.html

I find the name Lt. David Bauernfreund Lt. David Bauernfreund to be interesting... I have heard the name Bauernfeind, with origins in the 12th century as knights and their helpers who were hard on farmers / peasants... it is a family name you sometimes see in Bavaria... but bauernfreund is new to me. I was once told that back in the Kaiser years it was possible to have Jewish names "Germanized" for a fee... does anyone know anything about the "How's and when's ". Apparently the names were not German as such, just germanized versions of the original name.

Hi Chip, can you post a pic? Thanks Chris

This is stamped 1916 from a german maker.... Anyone have any idea what it is? The seller saysfor the lock of a MG08... but that seems a bit funnily shaped for that...

The 4th cavalry has a certain "class" about it. I am a fan or pre 3rd Reich goodies :-)

Have a non deactivated one and live in Germany... where is this supposed to lead

I have managed to add some more machine gunner pictures, on Page 3 and 4.. http://www.kaiserscross.com/56701/58001.html All the best Chris

I have managed to add some more machine gunner pictures, on Page 3 and 4.. http://www.kaiserscross.com/56701/58001.html All the best Chris

Ahhh, I misread... I was thinking R.I.R. 247 back to the drawing board them...

a nice start... but I assume that is chapter one?

I have a latent hate of modellers... probably stemming from an ingrown jealousy when I see what they can do :-(

Hi, which colony?

Fluncking amazing bit of paper.... it would encourage me to run off and buy another copy of "treasure island", lay in my hammock and sip my rum (and coke) and have the neighbours kids sing "sixteen men on a dead mans chest... yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...." till they drop....