Gerd Becker

Prince Friedrich Karl

his son, Crownprince Friedrich Wilhelm

Kaiser Wilhelm I.

Hello everyone,

does anyone of you know this book? Title is "Der Krieg gegen Frankreich 1870-71" and its printed 1895. Its about the war 1870/71 and describes very detailed, what happened. There are some very nice prints and i though, the members here maybe enjoy it to take a look. First, the book cover:

Thanks, gentlemen. There was some shill-bidding going on there, but after some information, i got, this member is NOT a shill-bidder, but just a Mongolian Collector.

I am sorry, if i spread some confusion.

Gerd

Fantastic story, Wild Card Did you get the document for the medal as well?

I have never seen a Hannoverian Lifesaving Medal before. Absolutely mindblowing

Thanks for sharing this treasure with us.

Gerd

Guys,

just for the case, any of you buy from the ebay-sellers pumbark or artreti, they are somehow connected and they bid on their own stuff with another identity. Take a look on this feedback:

Edited out

Just a new collector gone mongolia mad or are these sellers trying to cheat?

Someone mentioned unissued Orders books of the later type for this order. Maybe its one of them?

A 7.9XX Number should be awarded around 1971

I have one, numbered 73.462, which was awarded 1974

Super nice group, Ed. Thanks for sharing

If you don?t have it yet, here is the Unit-History of the 116th Rifle Division:

formed on 13. January 1942 from the 457th Rifle Division in the Transbaikal Military District with:

441st Rifle Regiment

548th Rifle Regiment

656th Rifle Regiment

406th Artillery Regiment

246th Antitank Battalion

250th Sapper Battalion

178th Reconnaissance Battalion

The 457th had been formed late in 1941, so none of the elements of the 116th Rifle Division had been in existence in any form for more than three months, when it started west for the active front on 7. February 1942. By 2. March the division was arriving at Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, and on 23. March 1942 it was assigned to the 50th Army in the Western Front. It stayed there until August 1942, when the division was shipped south and added to the 1st Guards Army in the Stalingrad Front. By the end of September the division was moved to the Don Front, and it fought throughout the destruction of the German 6th Army in Stalingrad in the 66th Army of the Don Front. The 116th went into the STAVKA-Rerserves in February 1943 in the 66th Army. In early May 1943 the division was assigned to the 53rd Army in the Steppe District (later Steppe Front). On 3. August 1943 the 116th was in the first echelon aussault wave in the 53rd Army attack, that broke through to liberate Kharkov. In honor of this feat, on 23 August the division received the honorific title "Kharkovskaya". The division remained in the 53rd Army in the Steppe (after 20. October 2nd Ukrainian Front) until January 1944. During the fighting around the Korsun (Cherkassy) Pocket it shifted to the 5th Guards Army in the 2nd Ukrainian Front, and by the end of February 1944 the 116th became part of the 52nd Army in the 2nd Ukrainian Front. It remained part of the 52nd Army for the rest of the war. After a few weeks in the STAVKA Reserves in late September and October 1944, the 52nd was moved to the 1st Ukrainian Front, and the 116th Rifle Division ended the war in the 48th Rifle Corps in the 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front.

(sorry for the typos, did?t had a coffee yet)

I read somewhere, that the Halingol Medals was one of Zhukovs favourite awards....

Actually, I was still confused about this part:

"Especially as you get on google thousands of hits for websites with russian mail-order brides..."

Is there something you want to tell us, Gerd?

(I never play. If I remarkably DO know an answer, I can't think of a question, or vice versa. That's my story and I'm sticking to it....

so somebody still actually mails CATALOGS, Gerd?....)

Ya know what i mean, man

Honorary Labor Medal

Type 1.1 (Ribboned screwback suspension; Uighur; SN with "No." prefix)

Low = 214 High = 985

Type 1.2.1 (Ribboned screwback suspension; Uighur; SN without prefix, seperately soldered ring)

Low = 1569 High = 11953

Type 1.2.2 (Ribboned screwback suspension; Uighur; SN with "No" prefix above the SN)

Low = 10663 High = 10668

Type 1.2.3 (Ribboned screwback suspension; Uighur; SN without prefix, ring part of the medal)

Low = 12001 High = 16519

Type 2.1 (Ribboned pinback suspension; Cyrillic; SN stamped)

Low = 16785 High = 21354

Type 2.2 (Ribboned pinback suspension; Cyrillic; SN rotating tool engraved)

High = 35869

Type 3 (Enameled pinback suspension; SN rotating tool engraved)

Low = 737 High = 4892

Type 4 (Enameled pinback suspension; SN rotating tool engraved; aluminum) IS THE SAME AS TYPE 3 , was a mistake from my part, there is no such thing as aluminum HLM's

Medal for Selflessness/Medal for Distinction in Prodtecting Public Order

Type 2.1 (Two red bands and one blue band; SN rotating tool engraved)

High = 1232

Hope this helps

Jan

Jan,

regarding the Honorary Labor Medal, the most recent type seems to be from aluminium. I guess, you have seen it on ebay too, right?

Gerd

Its not unusual, that an order was downgraded, but a downgrade from ORB to MMM is really a slap in the face, like Rick said.

Wanna see the Medals too

Is it Galina Vishnevskaya?

Was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Honored Artist of the USSR and several other foreign awards.

She is married to the famous Violinist Mstislav Rostropovich and they run together the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation, which cares for the health of russian children.

Thats really a tough one, Chuck. Especially as you get on google thousands of hits for websites with russian mail-order brides, when you try to find out somthing about a russian woman

Is she a singer?

Gerd

Thanks, Jan

Hello gentlemen,

can someone tell me, if this Victory over Japan Medal has the right screwplate?

Thanks

Gerd

Or......

The consignor decided not to sell the pieces. Or perhaps Igor decided to take them down to list them up later if he has heard of a potential raise in prices. All sorts of possibilities!

Chances are though that they were sold to a deep-pocketed Russian. In the cloth world, we've encountered some of these guys. The head of one of Russia's largest oil firms is a big-time uniform collector and has no problem dropping lots and lots and lots of money on what he wants. He's willing to drop more on a single uniform that he wants than I make in an entire year! Kind of tough to be in competition with people like that!

Dave

Good points, Dave. I don?t know, if these were his or if he had them on consignement.

Gerd

Well, like I said, the legit dealers usually don't object. Free publicity is free publicity!

I agree, that must have been some kind of special check Igor received! Probably had Brinks make the delivery! Can you imagine trusting something like that in the mail system!???

Yes, imagine, it got lost in the mail

Nah, the buyer probably flew over to pick up the stuff. Maybe even with his own jet

Like it seems the buyer took a few other goodies as well, like the Kutuzov 1st class, the Nakhimov 2nd class and the Uhsakov 2nd class. What a package!

Lets say it this way: I can?t see myself ever buying something from this dealer. In my opinion is nearly everything overpriced on his website. I mean, would you buy three common Campaign Medals with documents for nearly 300 Dollar?

This pricing policy will displace a lot of people out of the hobby. But as long as it sells, why should he care?

So what are you saying..........

"......One size fits all?"

That's right up there with "The check is in the mail" and "Of course I'll still respect you.........."

Thanks, guys. I got it now.

Gerd

Edit: Already answered

Not mine unfortunately. My "photos-of-orders-medals-and badges" collection is much nicer than my real collection

Like mine is!

It could not be better. Thanks so much to the good and the evil Rick (please chose yourself, who is who )

There were not much Orders and Medals on this show, but i couldn?t just let these pass, as they are all looked good to me and the price was right.

Thanks again, guys.

Gerd