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Hi: As an update (I've been away all week)-I do have the Hamburg rolls on CD and from what I can tell they were formatted on a Windows 95 (!) device. My better half can fix this easily. Also, I believe the Bremen rolls have arrived and are awaiting me at the post office, but I will have to go see. In the meantime however, I have started a new "project" that will keep me very,very busy at least through next June and -God willing through next Hovember and perhaps until Jan. 09. Until then, I doubt I'll even crack these things. I must confess, my interest in Derg era Ethiopia is where I am spending my time these days. By the way-what exactly IS that man in Stogies' old Mecklenburg /White Falcon picture? Some sort of NASDAP/SA/Luftwaffe private-rank hybrid? I assume it is a 1934/35 picture by the SA cap eagle?

It's a reprint form a negative-but @ 1944

Garcias Humberto!!!

The "I am not impressed" look all teenagers have:

ah-nice to see that bar again.

Have you tried the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.? Also, have you tried the Belgian Red Cross?

Is that Saxon Landwehr artillery?

By the way, I think this is rude. There is a language factor here, so 'Collectingchris' I think probably did not intend to be rude and I for one, would give him the benefit of the doubt....but this is a forum for GENTLEFOLK, and I am certain that the moderators, the sorts of people who once made me stand at attention for 2 hours straight (with a pack and wool beret on) in the pouring-down, winter rain at Colchester, will not allow rudeness here. This is a most informative thread and I am grateful for it. Robert E. Lee, a great man who fought for a bad cause, once said: "A gentleman never intentionally causes another any offense". It's good advice in the anonymous world of cyberspace and keeps many different sorts of people on a friendly footing.

Wow!! You d' Man! Dave-that is awesome. Does the series go throughout the war and (he hoped) to 1920s? Are they NYC loaned? The fact that these are out there gives one hope !

There's this guy in Missouri.... AAG I think. He's good-very good, but very expensive. Also, FJP auctions on eBay are trustworthy . What you looking for?

A most interesting thread and useful thread. It has been well known that BMVK3s have been upgraded for @20 years or so now. Sidney Vernon noted as much in 1994 as did ORDEN before that. I did not know about the "buckle flaw" though. Given the extremely low numbers of these that were awarded I have always wondered about the scores of them that I have seen about. There certainly seems to be a marked quality difference. I would love to know the name of the chap who is "remaking" these. When is the book due out? Who is the publisher?

that's a pretty neat bit of research there-how'd you find his award date etc?

Neat! Another library find or elsewhere?

Actually, that is rather cool.

Hi Humberto! Welcome back! There are photos of some naughty officers wearing the banned V corps badge too. There is only one book in English out there on these awards-the VERY old Verkuilen Ager book. However, there are more in German. Can you help us with some translations in the Cuban medals section?

ribbon looks ok-how stiff is it? Whats' the weight and dimensions? Is it magnetic? Does it rattle a bit within the frame (3 piece?). What marks? What does it smell like? The inner core I also think has been repainted-although not a few collectors have done that as "repair work" if the core had rusted or flaked.

WOW!!!! Show us more! Even better-proof positive of specific awards with specific dates! Any Kivalo badges?

This isn't the Frank Pais medal is it? He and Che hated each other-apparently over a girl (who presently lives in Boston, Mass).

There is some ambiguity here-the Nuremberg laws apparently banned awards to Jews as of their promulgation.

weights?

I disagree-after Fidel goes, I give it no more than a couple of years before it implodes. It'll go in a weekend-buoyed by inevitable political liberalizations and the prospect of US style wealth in the offing. Everyone dreams of living like their cousins in Miami. I'd bet money on it.

I think you have the Menelaik coronation medal (without ribbon). The rest are a good -indeed great selection of British made WW2 medals-the last one is sweet indeed.

One book is Greg Copley's "Ethiopia Lifts her Hands To God". Available directly from him in Washington D.C.. It's a bit long winded though on "geopolitical symbols..blah,blah...".

WOW!!!!!!!! That is the best of the LOT! Have you read his memoirs of the 1812 campaign? Haunting passages-especially of Napoleon pacing, worried and angry, through the Kremlin as he read about Sweden's disasters 100 years before-as the smoky ashes of Moscow were floating through the open windows.....

There were also 200-250 or so Cubans in Afghanistan with the Soviet troops. Also, both served in Nicaragua...and her "borderlands".