Gerd Becker

Excellent advice, Ed. And thanks a lot for the links. I think, i quite found, what i am looking for. I?ll probably start off with a simple trio 1914/15 star-British War Medal-Victory Medal. Thanks again to everyone

Same here, agree completely. Although not my focus, its very interesting to see all these beautiful awards and read the information.

Thank you I am already keeping an eye on ebay UK and thought about to start with a nice WW1 Trio. When i have something, i consider to bid on, i?ll post it here for review.

Thank you, Ed. Thats a start. I will try to get ahold of the Medal Yearbook asap. This seems to be a very complex area of Medal-Collecting. Thanks again Gerd

Gentlemen, lately i am looking a little deeper into British Awards and see, that named Medals are deeply researchable. Now i am thinking about to add one or maybe little two groups to my collection and would like to have something representative for WW 2? What would i have to look for? What should be part of the group? Lets assume a pricerange of 200 Dollar. I have no particular interest, Army, Navy, Enlisted, Officer, whatever.... Also, a (not too expensive, i might add) reference for Medals of Great Britain. Look foward to your suggestions. Thanks in advance regards, Gerd

Yeah, and i wonder, where he finds them

After looking again at this group, i am quite sure, its okay. The orders book was issued with the Red Star Nr. 1.923.384 and the Long Service Awards (Red Star, ORB) were added later. Now, his first Red Star should be a "real" award and the rest are his Long-Service awards. Gerd

Kevin, thats a Prussian Crown Order Medal, worth probably about 75-100 Dollar, i would guess. Gerd

Lovely group, Ed. No worries about the number on the Red Star, its a MZPP product, they are this way. I am not sure about the orders book though. I am curious, what the experts have to say. Gerd

Great citations. Thanks for posting this research

VERY nice, Heiko.

Jason, in an 1870?s group this would have been another version of the SEHO-Medal. On an 1870?s bar there would be most probably the version with Herzog Ernst I and on the 1914 Medal bar there should be the version of Herzog Carl Eduard. Gerd

Nice bars, Jason. Isn?t the Silver SEHO Medal most likely for this combination?

VERY very nice, Paul

Fantastic group and great job reuniting his items, thanks for sharing!!!

Just imagine, this is rarer than an Order of Victory. I would never have thought, someone would be able to get one of these.

No problem, Ed. Main thing is you enjoy it Great Piece despite the damage

WOW Ed, one of the 6 awarded or did this come out of the mint stock, if i may ask? Incredible!!

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Thats a beautiful piece Thanks for sharing, Andrei

Wow, i am impressed, Bryan Great Stuff Love the ground dug Leningrad Medal and the pinback converted group

Excellent! By the way, welcome to the forum

Thats a real nice one with a really really low number, Dan I have two pairs of these 85er issues too, which belong to groups and they are indeed quite nice, but once, you have discovered the beauty of the wartime issues, you are lost, man PS: Darrel, glad, you still like them

Oliver, erst einmal, das ist sicher nicht der Ton, der hier sehr gern gesehen wird. Ich denke, du bist sicher in der Lage, den Mitgliedern hier ein wenig Respekt entgegenzubringen und deine Meinung anders zu formulieren. Davon abgesehen ist dies ein englisches Forum, deshalb w?re es nicht nur nett, sondern auch verst?ndlicher f?r alle nicht des Deutschen m?chtigen Mitgliedern, wenn Du in Englisch schreiben w?rdest. Gerd