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Great items indeed!

I love those trunks! Allow me to show my latest. Not German, but Belgian colonial to contain the official uniform and hat;

Nice object! |<ris

Thanks for showing! Loved to own some as well! cheers |<ris

I wouldn't expect the plain , casted one to be used on uniform parts. I know to little about them, to say what they are, but I can say that many where made in later periods for "reenactments " during different periodes; many processions of religious or other characters were held on a annual base all over Belgium and many Napoleonic uniforms appeared in them. I am a button collector and now of many different patern's of "imperial guard " buttons, made for that purpose. cheers |<ris

On my list! I missed several lately, but I ll get one some day. heers |<ris

I didn't know they existed until I found thise one.The particularity of the well know German reservist pipe is decorated with a Belgian cavalryman in hise between wars uniform, with the mention "souvenire du camps d'Elsenborn". The camp of Elsenborn used to be a Prussian military camp in the late 1800 and was handed over to Belgium by the Treaty of Versailles. So the Belgians seems to have took everything ...also the traditions!

There a additional info I can give;, one of the officers of the LZ was a Belgian with German roots who always lived in Ghent before the war. |<ris

I guess to make a clear differences between the inmate headdress and the European's...

First one I see! Thanks for sharing. Belgians had a similar medal for tribe chiefs in Congo. They were given in a later periode, from end 19 th century untill 1950 and fetch prices like 250 to 500 euro. cheers |<ris

Or what my wife refears to as "scrap".... ;-) It needs some restoration, but never the less I like it as it is. These are parts of a Zeppelin that got shot down , above Ghent, by a Britsh plane, killing 29 German soldiers and crashed on the "Normaal " school of ST Amandsberg on the 17 june 1915 at 03.00 o clock of the morning. So says the handwritten legend coming with it. LZ.37 was intercepted in the air by R. A. J. Warneford in his Morane Parasol, he dropped six 20 pounds (9.1 kg) Hales bombs on the zeppelin which caught fire and crashed into the convent school of St. Amansdsberg. 2 nuns were killed and the entire crew of the Zeppelin also died except for one man. Flight S/L Warneford was awarded the Victoria Cross for his achievement. As a further consequence of the raid both the Army and Navy withdrew from all bases in Belgium; the vulnerability of such sites was now clear.

ok, thanks, got it! Pitty it is gone,I would have baught it too at that price. |<ris

In Morocco!!!??? I do have like a idea how that one got there...... I red the threat but didn't get to see the medal!? I also got lots of people asking if I was selling it, even offers to do the research, but with fee's, when showing it on a local foruml! But among all different objects that i collect, all Antwerp related items are the main theme to me. cheers |<ris

Hello Mervyn, i agree that medals to pro- British agents aren't that uncommoun from a "world citizen" perspectif! But,they are rather uncommoun in Antwerp, especialy when the recipient was a "Antwerp citizen" , that is a different point of vue and it gives it a other perspective! To some, that is! Please don't feel offended by that remark, it was facetiously ment! ;-) And I do take your advice seriously regarding the research that still has to be done regarding the owner. Town archives will indeed reveal more then what I got up to now, ..... found during a quick search, but I was planning to do thise in a few years when fully retired. I got it from a house clearence, no history attached to it.And I was rather pleased with the info I had up to now. But, I agree, there is a lot more to be found out, especially when you know that out of the same house a Prussian artillery officer helmet with his original cover was found in a closet. The helmet beared his camo cover when it was found, so it wansn't in any way on display, and it had a folded (Dutch!)news paper, behind the sweat band with a spy related story. I did recently posted that spike helmet in thise very forum as well, but in a other section. So I don't want to make thise sound like a Agatha Christie novel, but there could very well be a relation between the owner of the medal, because of what she did and the Pickelhaube(owner...!). To be continued....in a few years that is. cheers |<ris

Thanks a lot! |<

I do not have that much British medals, but here the one I fancy the most. A British War medal WWI given to a Belgian female agent of my home town. Here name was Celina Ludovica De grave. She lived in the same house at the St- janskaai 27 in Antwerp, with here sister. Here sister was also a agent who recieved the same medal and the order of the British Empire, also honoured in the London Gazette. Both were members of groupe m/14 Van Houcke.

Very nice helmets ! I started collecting (again!) a few years ago and my first pickelhaube was also a Prussian foot artillery; with his original cover! It came out of a house clearence.

Thank you! |<

You are right about thise! But I had a collection of like 50.000 international periode dies, without a formel given proof, I can tell you by guts feeling that thise particular skull die is a time piece. The collection I kept up to now is reduced to 5.000 and planning to get it to something like 500, because that would be a confortable number of die's to handle and care for. They are heavy and need a special care. Within the selection I made is thise early 20'th century die of the crest of a Belgian transitional helmet that remained a prototype because of the start of WWI. It is the helmet I use in my avatar. Allow me to show you that die; |<ris and the pic of the other side(also in my possesion, but not on display because of his weight!) in a time catalogue;

Thank you for posting them on such a short notice! It helps a lot. I made a cast into the negative counter part for that matter, and it seems all right to me when compared to the fake's.

Dank U! ;-) |<ris

Indeed,I did mention that both held differences.. It would be intresting to see those fakes in order to compare. But on the other hand;differences on time pieces aren't that rare, one see them when comming from different makers. cheers |<ris

Thanks a lot! Also for the extra pic's. Would you allow me to use them on the net? Best regards |<ris

Love that medal! A box and a miniature are on my list. Here are my latest two;

Thanks for your reply! Plain! So no makers marks!? I am trying to identify a button die with a skull that looks a lot like your button. It is n't the same, but the closest's I did get since I found it. I took the liberty of copying your pic on to mine in order to compare (if not allowed , please delete!). cheers |<ris