Gerd Becker

What a fantastic and ORIGINAL group Absolutely astounding, how extensive this group is

Rick, obviously he held also the 1936 Olympic Medal and the HHZ-Knights cross. What is on second place on the four-place ribbon bar?

The last badge(tie-clip?) is definately russian.

Just wonderful

Gerd

Awesome EK?s here

Glenn, as i never handled one, i never understood, how that system on the KMST works. What a fantastic example

Gerd

Bob, sorry, i misinterpreted your post. I agree completely with you and Stogieman.

best,

Gerd

Thanks everyone

Interesting examples, George.

best,

Gerd

Jens, I imagine all it would have taken was one horrfic wound.

Bob, i don?t think so. The Bavarian Bravery Medal was a very high award and wasn?t just given for a wound, as bad as it may be. I am quite certain, it had to be involved an exceptional act of Bravery to receive this Medal.

Gerd

Nice score Chris! Looks like the little brother to this one!

cheers Jason

Nice bars, guys. I have never seen one only with an EK mounted, i think.

Thats a nice one, Jason. I just love the Prussian Landwehr 20 years of service cross

Gerd

Great Ribbonbar, Chris

Looks like a hardcore prussian from the placement of the medals. Centenary on third place

Gerd

Would it be logic to assume, that every veteran had a special civil "Parade"-suite only to wear on special occasions?

Dave,

i have tested your hypothesis with an ORB and a Glory, which have these scratches. Both were indeed caused from the hinge of the needle.

Very interesting!

Gerd

What a fantastic example I have NEVER seen one before

Gerd

Thanks, Rusty

This are his terms:

"Privatverkauf, nach neuem EU-Recht muss man jetzt ja darauf hinweisen!

Keine Gew?hrleistung, keine Garantie, keine R?cknahme, keine Nachverhandlungen,

da dies in keiner Relation zum erzielten Verkaufspreis steht !

Wer auf diesen Artikel bietet, erkl?rt sich mit diesen Verkaufsbedingungen einverstanden!

Wer diese Bedingung nicht akzeptiert, soll das Bieten auf diesen Artikel einfach lassen!"

"Private Sale, going by the new EU-law one has to reference this. No guarantee, no return, no re - negotination, as this is not in relation with the sales price (note: whatever he wants to say with that). Who bids on this article, accepts this sale-terms. Who does not accept these terms, should just not bid!"

I tried to translate it as close as possible...

I wouldn?t buy a Jubilee Medal from him

I suppose somebody wasn't able to read the scribbled black number and cleaned just that spot to make it legible.

I'm getting SO twitchy now about what is "out there" that I don't plan to touch ANYTHING that I own, since any alteration could be not simply cleaning but ... hiding something, to anyone not there when it was done.

I agree, Rick. You see, i am suspicous too. But i think, thats the explantion. Thank you!!

Gerd

Thanks, guys. Will check the Mondvor-Website, Christophe.

How about this photo?:

Hello Gentlemen,

i would like to have some comments to this serialnumber. Does the style look ok? Another strange thing is, that the patina is missing in the lower part (under the blue line). I can?t see anything, what implies, that the number was replaced. I can see no scratches or buff marks and inside the s/n-engraving there is a good amount of patina.

I think, its probably fine, but just to be sure, what do you think?

Thanks in advance

best,

Gerd

here's a link to this seller. I'm sure y'all will enjoy reviewing these items! ;>)

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZutimig15QQhtZ-1

Actually, i don?t. He is messing up perfectly good pieces to make them "valuable"

Gerd

Thanks, Rick. That makes sense of course.

Gerd

Beautiful Crosses, Claudio

Gerd

Guys, isn?t it possible, that he just mounted them, how he valued them himself? Agreed, the 25years Officer LS is weird, but the rest looks okay to me.

Gerd

Thank you

Gerd

Hello Gentlemen,

i would like to know, which were the requirements to get a Guards-badge? Did the soldier has to distinguish himself or did all members of Guards-Units get one?

Thanks in advance

all the best,

Gerd

Nice Picture, Kim.

This is a photo, which was part of a group (the OOR, which i posted last, belongs to this group), i got last year. This is Ivan Semyenovich Mukhin, telephonist and Mortar man in WW2, wounded twice. He worked as a lathe operator at the Dnepropetrovsk Factory "in the name of Karl Liebknecht" later. I still wonder, what exactly he got his awards for. Rick said, the Red-Star may be a belated award for his wounds in WW2. Every comment to that topic is more than welcome.

I think, he may have been good in enhancing or advancing equipment or invented something important in regard to Military Readiness? Pure speculation, of course...

And why not a picture of mine.

Exactly!

The more the better

I?ll add my second one here too:

Beautiful and impressive order, Ed

Gerd

Gerd you seem to find quite alot at the flea market. Any other Soviet stuff?

Well, not a lot, just a few smaller things regularly, but unfortunately mostly no soviet stuff.