Gerd Becker

Thanks for another fascinating research

Gerd

Hi Gerd, nice little group. Any paper with it? The enameled badges are beautiful.

Thanks, Gentlemen.

Rick, no paperwork with this group unfortunately. I cannot prove, this all belonged to the same person, but i got it together and the combination makes sense to me. I would LOVE to have the paperwork for this group though.

Gerd

Does anyone know how to say "BAH! HUMBUG!" in German?

Very simple, Bob.

Its : "Ach, Humbug!"

Thank Joe! I will take a look around today. The pics that are present... are they in color or B&W?

Paul, as far as i know, the newest edtion is with ALL pictures in color.

Gerd

Oh Lord, he was even more boring than my writer of "mountain novels!"

In Wer Ist's? 1935:

Born Recklinghausen 15 June 1874 son of "Gro?industrialist" August ten Hompel and Henrietta Wicking. He married Maria Strunk of Recklingshausen and had: Adolf, Maria, Elisabeth, Irmgard, and Carl-Gregor.

Lt. d.R. 13 May 1899 in Bavarian Feldartillerie Regiment 11. This is a pre-1905 photo since no Luitpold Jubilee Medal. In 1913 he'd gone to the Landwehr II, still same rank, with 1905 Luitpold Jubilee and Bavarian LD2. (No mention of ANY military service in his Wer Ist's, and no Crown anyway to any possible BMV4X)

His pseudonym for his works was "Hermann Wahroder."

Thanks, Rick. Maria Strunk von Recklinghausen, thats too funny.

Ah, a pseydomym, thats why i couldn?t find anything about him.

Gerd

Hi David,

i have some connections to WW2 throught my Mother, who was a Marinehelferin in Kiel in WW2 and won a Bravery Award (KVK with X), my father and my uncle, who were both in the RAD. My father later became Luftwaffenhelfer (he was still very young then) and my Uncle fell in Stalingrad. I have the deathcard of my uncle in a RAD-Uniform and the KVK with swords of my mom (my greatest trasure). Thats all, what survived over the last 60 years.

you have a most interesting Family history!

best,

Gerd

Not really Dutch, as far as I know. Rather Friesian (North German) origin.

Indeed, you could be right. Friesian names are often very similar to Dutch or also English names. Actually i allways thought of Dutch to be a hotchpotch of Dutch and English.

What would you have paid for this card? Just want to know, if i did right

Thanks again

Gerd

Partisan Badge For Peoples Liberty 1941-1944

Second is the Bulgarian Partisan Antifascist Union (BPFK) Badge

Hello Gentlemen,

i bought this small group of Bulgarian Partisan, as the price was right and i really liked it, even if these are most common medals and badges. The Medal and the badges are very sharp strikes, especially the badges can nearly compete with soviet manufacture.

First the Medal for Participation in the Anti-fascist Struggle

Very nice!!!

I would love to find something like that someday!!! (and an original medal case as well!).

Thank you very much for sharing it!

Gerd,

How much are the Prussian LS medals going for these days?

When you state that the LS medals from other states are pricy... How expensive is pricy?

Regards

Paul

Hi Paul,

sorry, i have missed your question. Lets take some examples:

Baden LS-Medals and Bavarian LS-Medals are VERY rare, for example. I think, i have never seen one. You can only guess, what the price would be. Hamburg-LS-Medals are at about 700-800 Dollar and some LS-Medals from other states are also in this price-range, maybe a bit higher.

These are just a few example, you have to save a while, if you want to go for all of them

The Prussian LS-Medal with "Koenig" is quite rare, i would say 300-400 Dollar, the later one with "K?nig" is more common, you can get one for about 80-100 Dollar, i guess.

You should buy the Nimmergut-Cataloge, its available on ebay, best resource for German Awards, at least for Imperial. The prices are wrong, like in every other priceguide, but it shows a lot of German imperial Medals and also TR-Medals. I think, the new one is complete in color.

best,

Gerd

Thanks, Chris

Joe, sounds like a Dutch name to me as well.

Gerd

Wow! Very nice bars, every single one of them!!!

The 1813-bar is just fantastic! And the 2-place Braunschweig bar is wondeful and an interesting combination, its hard to find both of them mounted and these both together on a Medalbar is a HIT!!!

The Hessian 5-place bar is very nice as well. A fighter of WW1, who also fought in WW2 (?KVK) and went in civil service then.

The Saxon HonorCross is also eveything else than common, especially mounted on Medalbars.

The 2-place W?rttemberg bar may be common, but its a lovely example.

Great stuff, Ed. Thanks for sharing.

Gerd

The second one is the "Sportabzeichen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik "Bereit zur Arbeit und zur Verteidigung der Heimat" in Gold" Its to the same person, he got it 8 years later.

Hello everyone,

i found these two badges on the fleamarket today. They seem to be the GDR-Version of the Soviet Ready for Defense and Labor badges.

The first one is a "Sportabzeichen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik "Bereit zur Arbeit und zur Verteidigung der Heimat" f?r Kinder in Silber" with document. The badge is made of plastic with a little metalplate added at the bottom. What does the little plate signify?

Reverse:

Thanks for looking

Gerd

Here is it complete:

From which period is this photo?

Hello Gentlemen,

i found this photo-postcard on the Fleamarket today and i would like to ask you to help with his name. As far as i can read it its:

" Dr. jur. Adolf ?? H???pel als Lt. d. Res. im bayr. Feld.Art.Rgt. in W?rzburg"

Can someone help with the name?

Thanks in advance

Gerd

Thanks for clarification, Rusty.

Gerd

Rick,

if you didn?t see them already, take a look at these at CollectRussia:

http://collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=11764

http://collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=12831

I haven?t handled any real ones of these either, but these look really good to me and they come from a reputable dealer, so i trust on it, they are ok.

best,

Gerd

You are most welcome, Greg

AWESOME

Thanks for the pictures

Gerd,

Thank you for the translation. I can read German well enough to obtain a solid understanding to what is being stated, yet in case of a purchase I want to be 100% sure!

Here is what the online translator came up with!

"It acts with and the down shown stucco of my experts opinion described above after around a contemporary original. Material, quality and execution correspond to the technical literature provable standard course-adapted in me. Slight tolerances are possible."

I do love collecting LS medals. At the time however, TR are the only ones I have. I would like to branch out to the Imperial States soon. I have not seen any of those for sale. The ones I have seen are very high priced!

Thank you again!

Paul

You are welcome, Paul.

Yes, online translators can be funny sometimes.

Except the Prussian ones the Imperial Lifesaving Medals are very rare and pricy, so think about that twice

best,

Gerd

Thanks, all. The Wiki-picture seems to show two HSU and one HSL. Would he have worn the first two without the third?

Thanks, Ed. On a closer look its indeed probably a HSL than an HSU. They could be worn together, as far as i know.

Gerd

Looking at it again on another monitor, I think Kim has a point. I think that's a very old Voroshilov...

That is my final answer!

Mustt be after 1968, as he is wearing two HSU-Stars. Here is a (free) picture from wikipedia.org

He wears three HSU-stars on this picture, can someone tell me, what he got his third one for?

Gerd