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Hmmmmmm....he is a general a D. About1930 by the stahl helm badge. I bet his some old Brigadier The last order would indicate he was a Prussian.

According to John Franklin there are extensive (and underutilized) Hanoverian records in the state archives...this includes muster rolls, pay rolls and various legal proceedings and day books. He has been publishing newly rediscovered accounts of the Waterloo campaign. The Guelphic medals were listed in the Staatskalnder and that used to be on-line at google books.

TWM ribbons were worn that way sometimes. Are you on Demir's TWM facebook (in turkish) page?

Hmmmm...is it really an EK or mayhap a TWM? Hmmmmm... Can anyone find the old "Women and the iron cross thread from @ 7 years ago? It ahd some pictures that Gordon adn Rick had uploaded of uber- rare awardeees, inlcuding a countess in riding boots, johdpurs and and polo helmet. I can not find it.

Cool.

Hmmmmm...or maybe he was in barrow mound country. No bricks- but lots of rocks used as walls.

Nice bar. Both medals were available for purchase in the US in the VFW magazine in the 1920s.

Is the "best cow" one the big silver one at the bottom? Nice haul-

As a lawyer the key question is # 5 -and yes. It is quite possible that the BB&Co. pins were made in the USA and exported to Germany and thereafter used by Binder Brothers.

My understanding is that it is "patent pending" (that's what it says in my law dictionary) .

good question- note the pin. This was stamped on German items (like pins) that jewelers made but had not yet received a patent for-. Many of these pins were also used for costume jewelry.

The one on the left shows up and I suspect is a "heroic worker" type medal. The one on the right I think is the new (post derg/Mengitsu regime) UN service medal. The newer Ethiopian medals used to be listed on the Ethiopian Presidents' website and I think Fred Borgman did an OMSA article on some of them. The US military attache' (navy) for the Gulf fleet did a write up on some of these @ 8 years ago and helpfully had it on-line. i shall check.

yup! cool huh?

The Waterloo Roll CAll is filled with errors. John seems to have tracked down an enormous number of British officers and their careers. I learn something almost every week on the site. Who knew so many ALLIED battalions lost their colours at Waterloo?

Rupert Brookes' does it for me-

Good luck! Can you take pictures and post them perchance?

Hmmmmm....have you tried the 1815 page on Facebook? I'd wager money Paul Dawson or Mr. Franklin could track him down.

Good Luck! A GOLD MINE would be to see the INDEX of the "Negerat Gazaette"- the official Ethiopian Gazette (published in English as well as Aramahic and Geez'). It contains the relevant regulations -and continued publication through the Derg era. In the USA only ONE library has a full set and they don't lend it. I am especially interested in WHEN the victory medals were actually issued- because they often do not show up on WW2 medal ribbon bars. If you can find ANY loose ribbons, or ribbon bars, please, please, please, please buy them. I will happily reimburse/pay a profit for them. If you can- see if you can find a decent Derg "Hero of the Nation" medal (akin to a Hero of the Soviet Union). A bunch were awarded for the wars-esp. against Somalia and Eritrea and also Cuban and East German awards. Both countries had LARGE military/economic contingents in Ethiopia and there are all sorts of photos of Derg officers wearing Soviet/Bulgarian/DDR medals/ officer school badges. BUT THE RAREST medal you are likely to encounter is the replacement DERG era "guerrilla medal"- it has a rounded bakers' bee hive oven on it with grenades falling out of it. The Sellasie era "guerrilla medals are rare enough- even though made by Mappin and Webb, but the Derg ones are incredibly, insanely rare. Most people do not know what they are . GOOD LUCK!

Really? The "real" ones I ahve seen all had unsubstantiated provenance, but were quite decent. They were sold widely in the 1950s and 1960s by Souval to collectors- I have the ads for them in Fleydermans' Digest. According to Hayes they may have been awarded in india by the INA up to the 1970s.

Really nice! These badges have real political/historical significance -as they were issued by the Nazis as an attempt to "coordinate" and de-fang/make impotent the old veterans' associations. At one point almost one in three adult German males belonged to one club or another and there was an enormous overlap with shooting clubs and musical societies as well. The older veterans' associations were a solid part of German society and culture and had enormous political importance. A lot of these older guys got dragged back into combat in 1945 as Volksturm members. The photos are from Rick Research's collection.

Nice-look like 1960s- 1980s versions. I reckon the Kenyon one is @ 1985.

a 15 trillion Zimbabwe Dollar note .

Apparently the original backing dies are in the British archives -as British MPs took them in 1945. Hence fakes are blank? As I recall Gordon Williamson remembered this @ 12 years ago on another forum far, far away.

yeah- i think so too. Someone will have his medal card for certain.

:0 you have been holding out on me!