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Thanks for your reply and your explanations. Danke!

Hi ! Just wanted to show you one of my portrait photos. The highly decorated guy is R. Schröder Branddirektor in Weimar (Firedirector in Weimar - at this time Freistaat Thüringen/Weimar era) I.m.o. the picture must have been taken in the late 1920s bevor the 3rd Reich. Schröder is wearing the following decorations (as i could id them) -Feuerwehrverdienstkreuz Thüringer Feuerwehrverband 1927-1934 -Deutsches Feuerwehrehrenkreuz 1. oder 2nd class 1929-36 - ???????? -Verdienstkreuz Württembergischer Landesfeuerwehrverband 1924-1936 -Feuerwehrehrenkreuz Landesverband freiwilliger hessischer Feuerwehren 1930-36 -Preussen Lebensrettungsmedaille bis 1918 -????? not to id -Ehrenkreuz des badischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes 1926-36 -Feuerwehrehrenkreuz des bayerischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes rote Ausführung 1926-36 -Feuerwehrehrenkreuz 1. Modell Freistaat Thüringen 1920-1925 -Freistaat Thüringen Lebensrettungsmedaille -Freistaat Thüringen Feuerwehrehrenabzeichen 2. Modell -Freistaat Thüringen Feuerwehrehrenabzeichen 1. Modell - je 1925-34 -(rare to find on pics): Feuerwehr Verdienstkreuz des Provinzialfeuerwehrverbandes Sachsen (ca 1925; i can see the saxon coat on arms on the avers side) -Preussen Goldenes (?) Feuerwehrehrenzeichen für Verdienst um das Feuerlöschwesen 1923-1934 (rare to find on pics): Sachsen/Weimar Ehrenzeichen für Mitglieder der Feuerwehren 1890-1918 and finally: Rot Kreuz Ehrenkreuz 3.Klasse des Anhaltinischen Landesverbands vom Roten Kreuz 17 decorations. Does somebody know which cross could it be on position 3? Thanks for help and watching.

Glenn, that`s g r e a t - thx one thousand times again. 🤚 Best !

Thanks for your reply. I have a few ones, too. The following is definitely my best one: Bavarian Prof. Julius von Michel, later president of the Wuerzburg University Bavaria; dated 1900. Does anybody know more about the 2nd decoration of my first shown pic?

Hello together A few days ago i got this CDV of a prussian non-combatant. On the back also his name: I think it means "Westphal" and a date Metz (Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine) Sept. 1904. I think it`s a higher prussian official as for example a Regierungs or Rechnungsrat. I had a look into the 1877 list and found for example a Westphal Albert Polizeikommissar in Straßburg (also in A-L.) with IC on non-combatant ribbon for 1870. On the CDV he`s wearing: -IC 1870 n/c. with oaks -??????? I believe an prussian GMVK, if i am right for 1866 no MEZ1 were awarded. -RAO4 (red eagle 4) -Kriegsdenkmünze 1870 for n./c. (war memorial medal for 1870 n./c.) -Kreuz für 1866 (cross for 1866 with combatant`s ribbon) -Centenarmedaille (Centenialmedal) 1897 The problem is, that i cannot find a Westphal with GMVK or MEZ1. Or could it be another decoration on schwarz-weißen (black/white) "war ribbon" - as for example a RAO4 without X? Thanks for input / help.

It`s the MMM not a cross. The medal is ok.

I like the bar - but i`ve never seen such an early bar with this "Nicholl" hooks on it. I would let the bar as it is now.

Thanks for your answers. Does Paul still has the bar?

Bethmann-Hollweg got the EK2w 1914 and the 1st class of it - as only a few persons.

Hi together, First: I wish you a happy, healthy New Year 2021. Second: I found an old thread about GFM Model and his bar here in the forum. As some of you know, i also collect pics and postcards (photo cards) of military personel of the German Army. I few days ago, i could get the shown card. The seller didn`t know the name of that guy. Imo the card shows the later GFM Walter Model - here as a Hauptmann of the Reichswehr. If i am right, the AGFA sign on the back signs to me, that the photo was taken in around 1923. I cannot produce a better result with my scanner. The shown bar shows a frosty framed EK (and bigger sized - produced after 1918) as you can see on "his" bar of the old thread. I am nearly sure to see the damage of the 6 o`clock crossarm of his MVO4X - what i also can see is, the early thin swords of the MVO. - so my personal opinion is, that Paul`s bar definitely belonged to him. In the mid of 1930s (after the Wehrmacht was "founded") the LSC`s were added to the shown bar. My pic was also shown in the book of the old thread. Best. Joe, Germany

i like it

I did not know, that Sedlatzek produced these pieces.

bevor Liakat: Heiliger Michael imo.

No, - very hard to find

Very nice pieces. Send it to me in Germany. ?

The golden certification is about the Eiserne Halbmond ("Iron crescent aka. TWM") I sold the lot a few years ago. The FJO knight is a typical decoration for military docs and Geistliche. Sanitätsmajor = in German a Stabsarzt. Because of his service in Militärmission Türkei he got a rank higher.

Now, my internet connection is running better. Here my pics of SDA:

Hi Preusse, Could you please take the pics of the "Dr. Retzlaff Konvolut" into this thread. You can find it in search function with "Retzlaff" I have a few problems with the internet, today. Thanks.

Hi i cannot explain it in English and "Google Translator'" is not the best source. I will write my opinion in German: Meiner Meinung nach ist das die Feldspange eines Deutschen, der in osmanischen (türkischen) Diensten stand. Ich hatte eine vergleichbare Spange mit einem Urkundenkonvolut vor ein paar Jahren. Meiner Kenntnis nach wollte das Kaiserreich geeignetes Militärpersonal für das verbündete Osmanische Reich anwerben. Man lockte mit einem orientalischen Erlebnis und einer "Beförderung". So wurde z.B. aus einem deutschen Hauptmann ein osmanischer Major. Um die guten Beziehungen zum Sultan zu wahren, trugen die Deutschen (ob es alle waren, kann ich nicht sagen, bei meinem Konvolut war es aber so) die Feldspangen mit "osmanischen" Auszeichnungen zuerst und danach die anderen. Es schönes Stück. Die Spange mit dem Friedrichsorden könnten identifizierbar sein; die Quellen sind aber nicht vollständig (also die, die ich habe) MFG

Thank you v e r y much, Mr. Data

Hello @ all ! Here we have an unknown german General. He´s wearing: -IC 1914 - Hohenzollern Houseorder knight with X -RAO4 -LSC 25 -CM -Anhalt Friedrichscross & Housorder Albrecht the bear knight Seems he had Anhaltinian roots. Any idea, who`s that guy? He´s wearing

Do you have a Schmidt in your list, who get the St. Henry knight? His rank should be: Oberleutnant or Hauptmann. Yes, i know it is a very common name....

Thanks for help. This pic was taken in Trier. It shows a Major with IC 1st class 1870 I read, that in Trier the Rheinische IR Nr. 69 was stationed. Could it be Major von Lengfeld or Major Mertens (both in RL 1873)?

crown, numbers & W

Looks like Godet core.