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Hello, congratulation to this nice silver gilt MVO. Is it a second class? Did you get this award with its box? Are there any markings on the MVO? What is its weight of the single cross? I'm not a specialist with the higher grades of the MVO, so I want to become some informations about it. Thank's for showing

That was the "fashion" of the napoleonic aera. Bavaria fought with Napoleon until 1812.

Hello, here is a postcard of the 100 aniversary of the Leibregiment. The picture shows the uniforms of the beginning. Look at the stamp, it is from the "Leiberverein Aschaffenburg".

Hello Chris, do you have a photo of the officer's ring? I know only the regular ring.

Hello Chris, do you know this link? http://www.kriegsopfer.org/Weltkrieg/Infanterie_Leib_Regiment/Leiberring.htm The owners are soldiers and NCO's. There only one ore two Leutnants. Cheers Andreas

Hello, that was a award for helpful work, given to members of the redcross. The founder of this award was the redcross-association of Thüringen (Thüringer Landesmännerverein v. Roten Kreuz) I don't know the time it was awarded, but the font looks like early 20th century. Cheers Andreas

Hello, you have very nice collection, perfect presented. All items are in very good condition. The 08's are faboulos, I like them. cheers Andreas

Someone tells a lot of the story of the decoration. That makes the decoration not better. Look at the crown of the lions head. The original has a square form not a round form. Here a original Ries

Hello, here another doubtful item. Max-Joseph looks like Pinoccio http://www.ebay.de/itm/BAYERN-BayerischeTapferkeitsmedaille-hochsteTapferkeitsauszeichnung-fur-UFFz/390546204792?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555001%26algo%3DPW.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29%26meid%3D3214216137826742939%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1013%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D281222029402%26

Hello Ed, the ending will be ...verein ... ( club). Please, show a picture of the name.

Thank you very much for this link. There is a lot of bavarian military history.

Hello. that could be a "Faschinenmesser", a short bavarian artillery-sword M 1892 with lionshead.

Hello, nice item, what you got. I think this price with a long ribbon is ok. Some years ago, I bought such a decoration without ribbon about 50 Euro.

Hello, that is a very interesting item. At first, I saw the Weiss swords and thought, Weiss hasn't produced this class with crown. The cross was made by Hemmerle, the last edition for silver gilt medaillons. You can see the thicker border on the backsite of the lower arm. The first class crown/swords was produced at the beginning of war with the early variants. A silver golden variant isn't known. I think that isn't a fake of the 80's, that could be a postwar production by Hemmerle. Here a original first class http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/43620-what-do-you-know-about-bavarian-mvks-and-mvos/?p=565525 regards Andreas

Hello, here a old bavarian bar, with MVK first type. regards Andreas

Hello, here my newest entry. A Hemmerle MVK second class. The agraffe is stamped with GH 900. It is a MVK, second type from 1905 till 1913 without swords. It is made of silver. That's the reason, why this MVK looks so good. It was found by a treasure hunter in the ground. Now I'm looking for a ribbon.

Hello, thanks for showing us these deathcards. It is very sad to see, that most of this young men died at the end of war. Intersting are the professions of the soldiers "Hausbesitzerssohn" = son of a house-owner, "Zementwarenverfertigerssohn", that is very difficult to translate. I think it was a son of a worker, who pave out or firm up on building sites.

Hello Christian, Idon't know if King Ludwig designed this decoration, I've never heared something about this. The marking EQ is Eberhard Quellhorst II ( son). Quellhorst II produces from 1866 till 1901.The successor of Quellhorst was Weiss. regard Andreas

Hello Stefan, thank's for inviting me to a beer. Romania is very interesting for military research. In WW1, the bavarian army fought several times in Romania. You can still find some bavarian of the WW1 in Romanian flea markets?

Hello, that is a bavarian ribbon for the MVK`s and MVO`s given to non combattants. In german it is called " Band für Kriegsverdienst" or "Beamtenband" given for officials at home. Here a picture which shows the three kinds of MVK/MVO ribbons . The left ist the ribbon given from 1866 to 1914. The middle for combattants since 1913 and the right for non-combattants and officials

I would have never thought to come to such a rare MVK. By a happy coincidence I've come to it. We're not talking about the money, because it was not cheap, but I'm very happy. This cross had been for long years in a bavarian collection.

Hello Christian, sorry, but I have no auction catalogues of the last years. This class is very rare und often faked. regards Andreas

Thank's, but on this picture i couldn't identify a maker. I'll wait for better pictures. The lion looks like the Hemmerle-lion.

Very nice Ritter 2. Klasse. Does the ring have any markings?

The late Leser MVK is not rare and therefore not very expensive, but determines the winner was very proud of it.