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Thank you for these interesting comments, Saxcob. I agree with you as to the quality of the engraving. Accident or not, I am most envious of you for owning such an astonishing piece.

IrishGunner said it best, Saxcob, this is an awesome salver - and also an extremely interesting piece for those of us interested in heraldry. Is it yours? I wonder how much it cost each of his comrades-in-arms? Dependent on its weight and size, I imagine you might have to spend £750 to £1000 for a decent one, today. To which one needs to add engraving costs: to have one shield engraved, I would expect to pay between £50 and £75 (depending on complexity) - although you might get some discount for 27 of them - plus more for the wonderful inscription and 'wappen'. At today's prices, I can therefore quite imagine that the other officers would have to have contributed £80+ each! Perhaps not so much for an esteemed brother officer but you wouldn't want it to happen every week I notice that there is a 14 month gap between the two examples you have brought to our attention, so there must be some more out there, surely?

Thank you very much, Dante, much appreciated!

Wonderful helms, Dante. Would it be possible, as a great educational aid for newbies like me, to post a list just briefly describing each, please?

... just my size, I'll post you my address, Adler Jokes aside, you have managed to find another exquisite item. Congratulations!

Thanks.

Thank you for the clarification. Now that is very interesting as it opens up new possibilities for uniform research - reserve hussar regiments! HR 15 had dark blue attilas with silver lace. So far, so good as that could fit in with your photo (officers' dark blue was significantly lighter than ORs, apparently). HR 15 had a monogram on their shoulder straps - a Gothic W for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. This is plainly missing in your photo, implying that, although RHR 6 were raised by HR 15, they didn't take on all (or perhaps any) of their parent's regimental distinctions. Was RHR 6 raised after the start of the Great War. If so, I am surprised that your man is wearing a pre-war style coloured attila rather than a feldgrau one.

Dave By RHR 6, do you mean Husaren-Regiment Nr. 6 (what does the first R stand for?)? If so, this uniform, or what we can see of it, would appear to give support to that identification. The photo shows your man wearing a Parade Attila of a line hussar regiment, with the rank of subaltern or captain being indicated by the cuff and collar lace (Hagger p11). For HR Nr.6, the attila should be dark green with gold lace, which is difficult to ascertain, of course. The lack of a monogram on the shoulder strap is a further indication that he was in HR Nr. 6 as they were one of the few hussar regiments who didn't have one (Hagger p.24). Source: D.H. Hagger, Hussars and Mounted Rifles - Uniforms of the Imperial German Cavalry 1900-1914 (Almark, 1974), p.11.

Thank you. Yes, I think I know the seller your mean. I will leave it until the shock of Christmas has worn off, first, before I place my order, however

How are you finding the book, Holmes? Did you order it directly from the publisher and, if so, how difficult was that? From what I have seen here and in other fora, it is a 'must have' - but I am recoilling slightly from the cost

Thanks for posting this link, IrishGunner. There is nothing like reading contemporary newspaper accounts, if one wants to try to understand the zeitgeist. What comes cross is the appreciation, at the time, of two power blocks jockeying for position. I am not quite clear what the 'Jewish Question', as it relates to Romania, is though?

How very interesting - I wasn't expecting that! That would explain the dark colour (brown?) of his tunic.

I am very happy to.

I have just received this chap and really ought to try to digitally clean him up but I though he might be of interest so am posting him in his natural state rather than wait. I wonder if anyone might be able to a comment as to how or why an oberleutant might end up with the Iron Crown and two Military Merit medals (I guess silver and bronze, with one of them being pre-war) - not to mention a certain German award?

Ah, shoulder straps - thanks you for that tip. I also look forward to your photographic analysis of rank stars and I am sure I am not the only one who will learn something!

Thank you for your commentary, Markgraf. I always have difficulty distinguishing between the rank insignia for a Gefreiter and for a Leutnant/Oberleutnant as they seem the same or similar to me. Because of the awards, which you point out are for non-commissioned ranks, I had assumed he was a Gefreiter. How can you tell, in this particular case, that he is actually an Oberleutnant, please?

If you're only going to have three medals, you can do worse than these three

... and here he is, busy paying! Source: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?91784

Thanks to the links Chris posted to original threads by servicepub, I have to say I stand corrected - and Simon/Coldstream may well be right - the Canadian Governor General's Foot Guards do indeed have their buttons grouped in pairs and have an explicit link with the Coldstream Guards!

However, Simon, in its favour is the fact that the button holes are grouped in pairs. I believe that the Canadian Guards got their tunics from the Grenadiers. Perhaps our Canadian friends would like to comment?

Does it have no labels, inside? In any event, a photo of the inside of the tunic would be most useful.

I'm afraid, Explorer, that I don't have the experience to be able to value your catalogue but I am sure that there is a market for it as it contains fascinating and, perhaps, unique details about Austro-Hungarian uniforms. If you put it on eBay for a nominal amount, maybe it will find its correct value? I don't know. If you decide not to sell it, you would be doing the collecting community a great service if you were to scan and post it to the Document Archive on this site. Whatever you decide to do, good luck with your decision and thank you again for showing it.

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Explorer What a wonderful document. Is it yours and, if so, where did you get it? Furthermore, can you post more pages, please What I found particularly interesting was that, based on this catalogue, it appears the uniform regulations were sufficiently flexible that one could buy a kepi/tschako in a variety of styles, according to taste - and mine will be a no.7 - Kavallerie-façon