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Thanks, I think it would. I only display them like this, on a table top. They are made to fit me, in the unlikely event anyone would ever ask me to wear it!

Stogieman: Thank you. It's been a long slog. Still working on the Bavarian Field marshal parade baton. Maybe this year sometime. I will post a picture if and when.

OK, Here is the current display:

Walter: Here is the ebay listing photo for a supposed real one

Walter: That is a good suggestion that I didn't follow. After thinking on it and seeing a real one listed for 10x that price, I just bought it. Please accept my thanks again for helping to find it! Be well my friend!

Waldo: Vielen Danke. I think this is just a bit too expensive. I'd go 150 Euros but there is no 'best offer' for it yet. I am watching it. Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it.

Anyone know of a source for a good reproduction of the COLOMBEY-NOUILLY clasp?

..the other likely possibility is that he wore regular red underlay shoulder boards and just had a '7' added. They are somewhat oversized, to my eye, as another point of interest.

These boards are very large and there is no visible underlay. If the boards were regimental, they would have a cornflower blue base and a rose secondary underlay, visible. He had this appointment or right to wear the uniform of the 7th Dragoons pre-war; there are photos of him wearing it at the 1913 'Kaiser' maneuvers. I posit that he's wearing the same detachable shoulder boards, Bavarian general's cords on red base not visible, with the gilt '7' added between the lower crossed silver Bavarian FM baton arms, as he wore on the uberrock worn in the photos of him at the 1913 maneuvers, and also below. The size, and lack of visible base and underlay colors also support this. This was also the practice, I believe, of non-Prussian officers receiving appointments to Prussian regiments. Can anyone corroborate or correct?

Bump; also please see related thread in uniform forum: Are the shoulder boards Prussian (Prussian silver/black chevron center braid and Prussian batons) or Bavarian? I understand they would be on the appropriate cornflower blue/rose underlay boards.

Leopold von Bayern wore the uniform of the 7th Prussian Dragoon regiment. 1. Does anyone know why? Was he ala suite or honorary chef? And, in what year did he receive this honor? 2: What shoulder boards is he wearing? Prussian or Bavarian? I understand that he would have worn the FM boards of the state (Bavaria) that he held that rank when the honor was given. He was made a Prussian FM in January, 1916. 3. Would he have carried the Prussian interimstab or the Bavarian?

Danke, Waldo!

Yes.

Yes, I forgot that. It seems likely. I've only found one photo of him wearing all/most of his swag, and I can't get a clear enough enlargement to make out any detail. Considering his position with Chiang, it's hard to imagine he didn't get a few gongs.

I will. I doubt he did as his China medal was for a non combatant, awarded for staff work done in Germany.