Stogieman

Hi Tom, is yours marked Juncker anywhere? Check under the crown!

The thing that always strikes me when I hold a gold piece, as opposed to silver-gilt, is the weight. Since most gold pieces are hollow, there's almost nothing to them and it catches you by surprise. Like the difference between a Saxon AOOK in gold/silver gilt. (Like the Glaser one from a few nights ago!) It's a striking thing the first time you hold one!

Nope, but they live near you!

Andreas, I seem to remember we had about the same conversation on the same swords about 4 years ago!

Besides, if you snip up the bar (Rick R) you can toss that crappy white & blue ribbon.......

Hi Andreas, as is so often the case with the real gold pieces, no markings whatsoever anywhere on the piece. No additional photos available, these are my archived scans.

Oh, here's Bruno himself!

This is one of the few pre-crash archives I still have and one of my earliest forays into the Imperial genre. I still love the group and don't remember ever seeing another document like this. Anybody have a nice example of the Artillery Version???

His official document folder.

A (much) later in life Birthday announcement/celebration document.

Some document detail

Our Hero & his comrades in the Lager

The actual award:

An often under-appreciated award, these shooting prizes were something many men wore with great pride. I have seen photo portraits redone when the soldat received his prize....... the portrait re-done from the opposite side so the prize could be seen! Here's a document for one to a soldier in the Alexander Garde Grenedier Regiment

Reverse........ I've had only 2 in real gold.

Here's an interesting one. Hohenzollern House Order w. Swords. The entire piece in gold.

Slightly different view showing the Scharffenberg mark/stamp on the inner lid lining. Not only the only boxed one I've ever seen, the only miniature bar I ever saw from Saxony!

Here's a rather interesting one...

Oh yeah.......... any chance you can tell what is in third place on the General's Medal Bar?

Hi Prosper, nice pieces and an excellent photo of the General. Do you know what these were awarded for? I have always thought the 2 & 1 kl. to be amongst the more attractive of the WW2 era pieces. I recently sold a ribbon bar with the Ehren=Medaille on it and when asked what the medal was awarded for; I was caught not having a clue what to say!

Did he just say "climax" & "drill" in the same sentance?? Doesn't sound very British to moi.

I think the variations from mark to mark were not made by the same stamp. If you study them letter by letter... there are variances that i do not think can be explained by how forceful the application of the mark itself was. There are some with malformed letters that would be malformed in each example if they were from the same die tool....

Hi Eric, welcome to the Forum! Your "Prussian" Fire Dept. Long Svc. Bar is actually Bavarian one and it is in the box for a pin of the Luisen-Bund, a Woman's Aid Organization.

Well, that would be a wonderful thing if he thinks this. I would still advise anyone who doesn't know these to a "T" to be extremely cautious in purchasing anything like it.

Hi Dave, nope, the bulk of the right end was all unknown to me. I was hoping someone would step up to the plate and tell us all about all the oddities down there! This one was weird, with lots of unknowns, but my gut was telling me it would prove to be right in the end-analysis. I knew 2 of the 3 odd-balls were W?rttemburg but I truthfully had no clue as to the S-L piece with the weird button on the ribbon. Thanks!!