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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.

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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

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Thanks a lot!

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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!

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You could be right, Stefan. Dies are always very difficult. Original? Repro? Who knows ????

The skull shape is correct for Wehrwolf.

No doubt.

But .................. when was it made ????

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;

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and the pic of the other side(also in my possesion, but not on display because of his weight!) in a time catalogue;

Some new made fake buttons....

PS: Compare the eyes!

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!

;-)

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I'm not sure about the originalty of this tool. I see differences.

Wehrwolf fake buttons are on the market since some years.

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.

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Thanks a lot!

Also for the extra pic's.

Would you allow me to use them on the net?

Best regards

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Love that medal!

A box and a miniature are on my list.

Here are my latest two;

QUOTE(Langemark @ Mar 20 2006, 18:20 ) ←

Even if skulls usually have a sad look, some here seem to be laughing a bit ! No ?

Some close-ups might be interesting in order to appreciate the degree of happiness of each skull ...

Mark

Here's a happy one.......

Hello, could I ask you what it is?

Is it a button? And if so could you show the back side please?

cheers

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ps great collection!

You can change your ebay adress and I am sure you must be able to find some one willing to use his ebay account to buy it for you....

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Quiet some collection!

Congrats!

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Also a very rare, never issued, police fez.

Only used by native police members in secundary important city's.

In primory important city's the tri-color roundel was replaced by a roundel bearing the city logo, only one such a city got his own police city roundel and that was Leopold-ville.

Note that the tricolor roundel has a reversed following up of the Belgian colors, thise was a regulation for all tricolor roundels on native uniforms.

Last two time pictures aren't mine, courtesy http://kitokocongobelge.skyrock.com

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Hey Chris,

it probably might have!!....

Sadly no history to it from the place I got it.

cheers

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Here some original die's, used for the making of different Weermacht /FP insigna's and medals;

Here is one of my Belgian Congo official officers swords, pre 1908 periode.

Next picture shows one on a time pic.

Many Scandinavian volunteerd in the Weermacht/FP, the guy on the picture is a Dane in Belgian Congo service.

Dog tags aren't my favourite militaria item, but thise one is!

It is the badge of a person who served in the Belgian Weermacht / force publique in Belgian Congo.
That army was founded in 1885 to protect and help the Belgian kolonialists in Congo.
Only 100.000 European men served in that army from the start till the end in 1960.
So imagine my surprise finding a legitimation badge / dog tag with a number as low as thise one.
The coat of arms of Congo appearing on the badge tells it was used during the periode 1885 untill 1908, the time Congo was the private property of king Leopold II.
Any Belgian Weermacht item of that periode (before 1908) is very rare to find.
I think I must be able to find out to who the badge belonged with the number it bears, that might bring out a other surprise.....
;-)
cheers
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Very nice medal, thanks for showing.

It is on my list,..."to get one day"....!

cheers

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Sorry, just noticed the way of posting images, so I will redo my post.

Primary post can be deleted.

A example of thise medal was recently sold on ebay.be;

First one I get to see!

Thanks for shearing.

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