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Thanks for your post.

I want to share a pic, which i got yesterdays for my 1870 Veteran photo book.

First  - unfortunately an unknown person, b u t

at Ebay i found him on a pic again with his name and data.

My pic was taken in Berlin on christmas 1899 and it is nearly 120 years old. 

It shown Heinrich Carl Scherer and

his wife. He served as a Feldwebel in IR Nr. 48 and fought

1864, 1866 and 1870. He was awarded with

-EK2 1870 (Wagner core)

-EK1 1870

-AEZ (general honour medal)

-KDM 1870 with 7 clasps (Spicheren, Vionville-Mars la tour, Gravelotte St Privat, Metz

Beaune La Rolande - Orleans and Le Mans

-1866 Kreuz für Kämpfer

-1864 KDM für Kämpfer

Centenialmedal 1897 and "25" oaks (1895)

-LSM.

In my opinion a true prussian hero of that time, especially of his EK1. It was only ~ 170 times awarded to EM and NCO.

OK i had the young Wilhelm Canaris on my screen (nose, ears, hairs...)

May be...

i only know clips on medal bars around 1900 or later

Yes, but the blue stripe on Schaumburg is smaller. As i bought it from a person, it had the DA15 on it.

Add a saxon Mannschaftsstand DA and the bar is perfect.

A few years ago this bar stayed in my collection.

That`s not a Schaumburg ribbon. It has a smaller blue stripe.

That`s a 938 piece made by Meybauer. There are also a version with screw

a cheap fake. Ebay`s full of that sh...

I don`t like the bar.

And the Adler der Ritter is not a so rare decoration. It was often given to teachers and preachers.

Centenar and Oldenburger HO m. Kr (?)

Those fotos are really rare. They are very hard to find. They are from the beginning of photography.

My earliest photo shows a 1864 soldier after the war ended.

Here one of my pics of the Kaiserliche Marine.

It shows an officer (i think Oberleutnant z.S.) with his wife (?)

and his new awarded IC 2nd class.

As i saw his face, i remembered one person who had a famous reactivation

in WW2 and the years bevor.

Do you know his name (or the person he looks like) ?

Thank you very much, Mr bavarian-argentinian.

Is it possible to ID the 1st guy?

He`s a Leutnant. The photo was taken in 1919 in Regensburg (Bavaria)

He wears the IC, Albrecht knight´s cross 2nd class with X, Mecklenburg MMCr. and

austrian MMC 3rd class with war decoration. On his neck an (austrian??) Malteser and

a unknown cross under it. Between the crossarms i can see some lions. (Finnish???)

The 2nd one was taken in Lörrach (Baden) in 1918. Which uniform does he wear?

No shoulderboards, no Kragenspiegel, only 3 black stripes on his arm.

Thanks for help.

Seems like Ex-Don D.  collection (?)

The shown piece with screwback is a private purchased piece of the Deutsche Offiziersverein.

The enamel is not the best and the Jahreszahlen are missing.

Vom Gewerbeumfang gesehen, ist es die alte Bezeichnung einer GmbH & Co KG. (wenn ich unterstelle, das das eine deutsche Fertigungsstätte war) - die Bezeichnung gab es jedoch auch im Ausland.

BB & Co. is an still unknown official manufacturer of  EH.

Braunschweig nice piece by Siebrecht

Immota fides !

Hi - the order means no HV devices on shoulderboards of officials of the RKG.

I think your shown boards are pieces of the Heeresjustiz - Heeresjustiz is no RKG.

https://www.google.de/search?q=reichskriegsgericht+schulterklappen&client=firefox-b-ab&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi94-7l2OnYAhVHy6QKHS8xD48Q_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=734#imgrc=8qVpsC9USAb9RM:

At the Reichskriegsgericht they had no HV devices. At my shown pieces there were never a device. Good question...

what do i have here, Paul?

I would say: Reichskriegsgerichtssekretär (= the rank of an Lt.)

In the middle green - the outside is held in red. No better pic possible.

PS: Your GMMM is a good one.

Yes, but the preowner (Voreigentümer) could also replace the silvered MMM in a GMMM.

The SMMM was often awarded to prussian units. It was the equivalent of the prussian IC2nd class.

There are no notes, that the GMMM was awarded to prussians at all.

The only possibility is, that the soldier has been a wuerttemberg NCO  (a citizen) served in a prussian regiment.

Hi, may i see the Vernähung of the GMMM?

I like the piece. The Eiserne Halbmond is in my opinion a piece made by AWS.