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What!! You survived downtown labrythian Lowell? Egad. Very nice find.

Three copies here!

You know, this entire thread reminds me of why collecting TR is such a mine field and why I rarely frequent the WAF these days. I think of everything in terms of odds. I reckon this piece has been devalued by the inscription. It might have been done by a family member or someone as a "permanent memorial" (I have engraved medals to KIA family members myself as a permanent memorial) ...but with an item like this, it quacks, smells, looks and swims like the proverbial (bad) duck... .

They weren't THAT common-far less so than an EK1 I reckon.

Excellent! I bought my Dad's day copy of Valkyre today and thought of you. Did you see the medal bar?

Wasn't there an obscure Luftwaffe Forestry dept at some point? No, not kidding...it rings a bell from the distant past. I still think the last ribbon is a Bav. LS.

Good Lord!! That is FANTASTIC!! Are there any photos of these in wear by older vets? Is there any information about those that were won in 1879? Merwyn, you amaze me weekly.

Well, I learned something new today! I had no idea what the Corps of Commissioners was. Do they still serve? What do they do these days?

...but an HK WITHOUT an X, but he has a Karl Truppen kreuz? Did it fall off? what are the last three: Luitpold jubilee, Tyrol and Bav. LS?

Is there any chance it was a peacetime award?

Congrats!! I was your competition. A wonderful piece.

OMG! That is a superb piece. Hmmmmm....memory bell ringing.......I think Nels gave a deposition about the capture of general Lefebvre...I'll be back.

So he was general Clintons' direct ADC in the battle?

I can not find Dieck's award cite, but his comrades in the 1st light Btn. ALL earned their medals the HARD way. The 1st light bttn. was part of the garrison of LaHaye Sainte-the farm that eventually was taken at bayonet and cannon-muzzle point later in the afternoon of the 18th. The bttn. took @ 50% casualties (or more depends on how you look at the returns). The color sergeants ranked between Sergeants and Sergeant Majors and were tough, well-respected men. The Colors were a magnet for hostile and dangerous activity (bullet, cannon-shot,someone trying to eviscerate you with a 5 foot heavy saber from atop a half-ton excited warhorse) and not many Color Sergeants lived long lives. The 1st light's Colors were almost certainly sent back up the ridge sometime during the battle and the 8th battalions' colors were actually captured by the french heavy cavalry (Curassiers) after the battalion was ordered down the slope by the Prince of Orange (in open line no less) to relieve LaHaye Sainte.

Wicked cool. Wicked! I have a VERY old Military Modeling magazine article on the rockets at Leipzig buried somewhere in the attic upstairs. Of more interest is whether Poten was at Waterloo and what he was doing there. 95 KGL officers were transferred to the Hanovarian line /landwehr regiments prior to the battle in the Spring of 1815. Poten is a PRIME candidate for that transfer, but also one is left wondering what the 7th btn. detachment was doing. So many questions-fun to (try and) research though!!

Have you looked in the on-line "Wer Ist Wer" for 1908? http://books.google.com/books?id=MiQNAAAAI...ist+wer&lr= (posted for RR too, incase he didn't know it was there)

I have to say-that Westphalian medal is absolutely superb!!! I seem to recall that the Westphalian Court Handbook had a small list of these recipients? God knows what percentage went into the mud in the Beresina or are in a mass grave at Borodino.

..."a few are nice" is a bit of an understatement! You have some premier stuff there- The Austro-Hungarians are WONDERFUL!!!!!!!

Cool! Perhaps it was at Isanduwana...(sp?) Were these merely decoration, or were they badges of rank/status and /or perhaps even a form of medal?

@1905?? :cheers: A VERY rare photograph indeed. Is that a Golden Grain order he's wearing? Is he Quing or is he SunYatSen Republic?

Good Lord!! The tanker's photo is awesome! How uncommon was it to have THREE military merit medals?

Well, I for one would be very grateful as to why you think that is a pre-1945 engraving style. The block letter style I have seen on 1960s era vets pieces and indeed, on sports medals. Can you provide details as to: 1. where this piece came from and 2. other similar engraving styles from accepted pieces? KARL HEINZ KRAHL BADGE (for future google reference). Thanks-

I am stunned. That is THE best (even better than the Bavarian group here last year) Napoleonic group I have ever seen.

That is a rare award and a recent strike(last 20 years). Apparently they were going to cancel these awards, but maybe they have delayed that now. There was a comprehensive OMSA article on these @ 3 years ago (indirectly inspired by a friend of mines' medals that I posted on the OMSA site). I spoke at length @ 3 years ago to the seller/designer of these awards. Recently, I got several small rolls of the ribbon, which will be going to the OMSA ribbon bank. You can find much more information there. (OMSA.org). Not only was there an article but a VERY long discussion on the open forum.

Can we see the edge please? Are you certain he was in the Hussars?