spolei

Hallo Walter,
jetzt bekommen wir zum Denglish auch noch einen bayerischen Akzent dazu ;-)

19 hours ago, Farkas said:

Hi Gents, Chris and Spolei...

Hi Spolei

That's awesome, thanks.

I never thought I'd have a name to go with this little tiddler !

I don't suppose you could tell me if this is from a particular period? Or were they widely issued over time?

either way

thanks again

Hi Chris, the more I browse members posts the more I accept how little I know. I never risk buying a 'real' pricey thing. Most expensive one above is the machine gunner cap badge for which I paid 8.50.....

I often take a gamble with unknown badges because (to borrow your phrase) my eye is caught by one or two. Even if I recognise them it has to be on the cheap because of all the copies

I do like to find job lots and go through them.

i buy an awful lot of stuff like this (below cost 8quid)....

because I spot a couple of pretties...

tony

Ps- diddly is a word sadly underused.... Squat however is still going strong!

Hello,
that is the silver Lorbeerblatt
 

Hello,
the single leaf-mini in the middle is a "Silbernes Lorbeerblatt" of the BRD.
It will be given to high to german sportchampions.

Thanks a lot for the names

Hello Chris,
here another example. Awarding in october 1917.
I think the early awardings would be signed in the rangliste.
A friend told me about 67 officers-rings. Exist a list of them?
I know only this names of soldiers and NCO's
http://www.kriegsopfer.org/Weltkrieg/Infanterie_Leib_Regiment/Leiberring.htm

1 hour ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

Hi,

The rings were never entered as far as I know.

Thats not right.
I have seen some in the lists.
Here one example.
Awarded in June 1918

Hello,

there are several listings of him.
He was woundet 11. Aug. 1917. Schrapnellsteckschuß Oberschenkel. One list says left leg, the other list says right leg.
He was awarded with the Edelweiss, but no comment about the ring.
regards Andreas

Only Nr. 1 is a quite good Leser which was awarded in wartime.

I dont know the international price.
In ebay germany you will pay about 130 to 170 Euro with box.

23 hours ago, scottplen said:

best I can get

It is not a fake, it is a Weiss late production and the bar is also good.

Thank you for answering.
Btw I got his name in another forum.

Hello,
the frontside of this Weiss MVK second class looks good, but the pictures are very small.
Will you show us the backside and a bigger foto of the frontside medaillon.
I guess it is a late production in the regular red box.

This could be the bavarian bravery-medal. The Max-Joseph was only given to officers.

On 10.12.2010 at 19:00, westfale said:

Hi all,

 

is it allowed to wear more than 2 bands? 

 

westfale

 

 

Nice photo,
is there a name or a unit on the backside?
This could be a bavarian.

Walter spent a lot of time to write this book.
He told me, about 10 years.
He reworked the book over and over again.
Researched in archives and the available source literature.
The book in its kind has the "Schrettinger" as an example.
Great work, I am also quite excited.
Greetings Andreas

1 hour ago, laurentius said:

Dear Mattyboy

We can see an Iron Cross 1st class (OEK 1908), which is clearly sown onto the uniform! You don't see that too often, furthermore there is a mecklenburg militarverdienstkreuz (MVK) 1.st class (OEK 1350), the badge on the left looks a bit similar to the Prinz Alfons erinnerungsabzeichen and I don't know the badge on the right. It looks like something that could come from the saxon/thuringian states.

Kind regards, Laurentius

That is not the Prince Alfons badge. This kind of badge could be for a wedding-jubilee, but I don't know which.
This is the Alfons-badge

On 29.8.2017 at 23:16, larsb001 said:

Another Bavarian chain from Weiss & Co which recently landed in my collection. Most of the miniatures are rather common items but I'd like to get some info on the "Ehrenkreuz des Ludwigsordens für 50 Dienstjahre" which were awarded from 1827-1916. I have not really been able to find any info on this one in the sources I have, I did find one in gold in an older Thies catalogue (the Blass collection) valued quite expensive which could indicate that this is quite rare. Would any have some info on award numbers etc on this one? It's a rather nice fire gilded miniature, this didn't came out well in the scan.

Enjoy!

Lars

What a brilliant chain.
A long service officer who had been in three wars.
He got no fighting-award like a MVO or a iron cross.
The rare Ludwigskreuz was given for 50 years of service in the bavarian army. The cross had to be returned after the death of the bearer. That is one reason, why this cross is so rare. This cross was also given to bavarian officials, priests and other persons in a equal rank of an officer. The non-officers got a golden medal for 50 years of service.
 

34 minutes ago, lew said:

Got this one recently.

 

What a nice bavarian chain.
This must be avery high official. He got the order of the bavarian crown, knightscross.
So he could change his name in "Ritter von" (knight of).
The Michaelsorden will be the trhird class and the Luitpoldmedal ist the silverclass.
That looks very fine.

What a huge collection.
which collector has the money and the place for so many items?
 

At the show in Großmehring?

That's life.
Do you know the major dealer?

Very  fine Jäger-collection.

Hello,

I'm searching the name of this german WW2 General with knightscross.
Has anyone an idea?

On 23.7.2017 at 17:15, Steve K. said:

My only other Bavarian bar

Can you show better pictures of the MVO?

22 hours ago, tompress said:

A Bavarian bar, no combat awards, but interesting (I hope )

Very nice a noncombattant NCO with 15 years sevice-cross.
Very fine bar!!!

Here my new entry with austrian and german decorations.
The chain is marked with Hemmerle Munich