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Excellent!!! I have never seen an April 4th on a bar before. Is that a senior NCO's bar or an officers?

Excellent thread!!!! Thanks Paul

you are a very,very lucky guy!!

Bloody Heck!! That's photo! The Brabant -amazing!!!! :Cat-Scratch:

Owain? Owain? What does it say?

The numbers at the upper left-are those print job numbers with MOD authorization reg#s?

Really good document score! Cool.

Yup-that's the man. He must have been a dual citizen as well. His death was reported as 'famous American killed fighting for the Kaiser' in US newspapers. That is his later photo @ 1890. By 1914 he was all white with a goatee. Apparently there is a monument next to his old house in Leipzig. He was one of the 6 most famous and important theologians of the 20th century and a brilliant linguist. His handwriting is phenominal. I have read part of his 4 volume work on the gospels. His literary analysis is the basis of part of the plot "Angels and Demons". Anyway, stay tuned. My favorite local bookseller has his effects via his g. granddaughter. The photos are fascinating. Can anyone tell me where the L106 was during the war?

ah ha! thanks! He got the EK2 and Sax. FA medal ( BRONZE ?) too. He died a citizen of the USA. His daughter lived in Cambridge, Mass.

Well, I saw something really, really neat today. Actually, a whole bunch of things and after I picked my jaw up off the floor, bought myself a little book on the first Carlist war. But i digress...... I seek information regarding Lt dL. Prof. Gregory, famed theologian, Professor and biblical literary scholar who was born in Philadelphia in @ 1847, saw Lincoln give 'a house divided speech' once, and went on to become a leading SPD cadre and Chair of the University of Leipzig theology department. He enlisted AT AGE 68 (!) as a war volunteer in 1914, got promoted to Vitzfeldwebel by Jan. 1915 and was given his LtdL. patent in late 1915 (it's in the Leipzig newspaper) and was killed in April, 1917 after falling off his horse and being hit by shrapnel. Can anyone tell me when he got his Saxon Albrecht order 3x? Thanks,

A Brunswick Hussar @ 1815.

Ooohh! ColinRF will like THAT bar! A Valkyrie bar. Splendid!!

hello! RE: #23! I have this SAME photo: IR 54 with the back here written Dec.4.1914. (translation of sutterlein script very welcome!). I think the Lt. in #12 and in #23 are the same.

Monarchy, Communist era or the new Republic?

Hi Sonja! Do you mean Lt. Wolfgang Muller born 25.4.1894, patent 18.6.1915? We would LOVE to see some photos.

Seriously-two beers! Are these faked at all? I looked in my ledger and I actually bought this in May, 1973. The back looks cast .

"hingerichtet" ="hung by the neck unto death"??? :speechless1:

:Cat-Scratch: :jumping: :jumping: :cheers: Thanks! Chris identified this for me years ago, but you have fleshed out the history! Thanks!!! I owe you a lobster and beer. I bought it off the Portabello Road about 100 yards from Prospers' table in 1974 for 50p. I thought it might be a Dutch Napoleonic horse brass. It was mixed in with a bunch of Napoleonic prints, papers, a silver gorget and mothy scraps: good days.

Beau, short answer-yes- Rick R. can give you lots of valuable information! I won't steal his thunder-he did the research. but, prepare yourself to feel very chuffed. Ricks' books are worth-while investments! You are very,very,very lucky to have an ex-Seymour piece. Did he say whence it came?

Big question: quick answer. I am an economist by vocation. Credit crunches/depressions do two things: 1. limit the number of buyers (fewer people have disposable income to spend) 2. lower or 'flatten' prices of more common items This is true of the general art/antiques market as well as medals. Rare items are always in demand. They may not skyrocket in price overnight, but they are still in demand. I suspect a third effect may be that 'lower end' collectors, bored with say, five black wound badges and EK2s and not comfortable with the price of an RK, may move to more affordable areas, like Communist nations.

Fantastic thread!! The 'then and now' pictures bring chills down my spine.

That is interesting. I have seen certificates like this before for Canadians, but not for a South African. The low number of the badge seems to infer a South African list although the certificate itself seems of a generic imperial style. I wonder if there is a roll of these in Durban? Off to the GWF to snoop round.

May we see a close up of the BavMVK2x please? -similar to #1 in 1930 with Bavarian medals coming first, before the elevation of the EK2:

Ah- Glasgow. Excellent quality then. Is there a makers' mark? It'd be interesting to see if the firm was still around. Sometimes those old ledgers turn up interesting information.

Good Lord! It's the size of a roll plate! Is that silver? You know, that would be a great JOMSA article.