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Hauptman Haupt! Well, I'll be hornswaggled! Thanks!

One of only three PLM pics I have-it is enormous! I have no clue who he is.

Wow!!! Beautiful pieces. :cheers:

Actually, the English engineers were reprimanded for not "doing their duty" the day of the battle 9it wasn't their fault). they did build some barricades and loopholes, but did not construct some of the works Wellington wanted them to do on the 18th. I think you're right about the Nassau contingent above Hougemont, although they also took heavy casualties before and after the cavalry charges from artillery while they were square. Oh for a complete run of the Waterloo Journal!

Cool!

Ah! I LOVE this subject. The 1865-1915 period of Irish nationalism is a fascinating era of history. These guys ALL knew each other and in some cases were married/related over two/three generations. What they thought of each other is fascinating too. Patrick Pearce was viewed as " very odd" by almost all of the nationalists, for example. The old Fenian organization was closely tied to Tammany Hall in the USA and was (still is in some places: e.g. metro Boston) a HUGE political power. There was a Fenian camp from 1866-67 in the field behind my old house in Machias, Maine. I found some old US Civil war era buttons there once and a St. Mary's silver medal. The Fenians hoped to trade Canada for Ireland once they'd captured her. The US federal government looked the other way while they organized their invasions.

Apparently the some of the rolls are at Windsor Castle!

Amazing!!!! Wow! The three escapees went on to be direct mentors to the men who founded the IRB/IRA. Robert Kee wrote brilliantly about this era of Fenianism in his "The Green Flag" trilogy.

..a very good reason. So, in this instance, medal bars perhaps are probably better historical records than medal bars?

Good Lord! I had no idea Federation awards had developed so widely and swiftly. The St. George cross is back?! Great thread. :Cat-Scratch:

........."you had a 50:50 chance". Ooops- Thanks, ...story of my life really... :rolleyes:

and the back-

...if indeed it is official at all. I would be surprised if it was an official issue piece. Still, a nice little medal. I assume for tough work in the Punjab, dealing with bandits etc.. It's "clunky", made of a base metal and feels "waxy", but a piece I rather like.

Bravo! #101 is a superb picture!

sweet!! You lucky dog! :Cat-Scratch:

Note however, that the ReichsChancellry had to write to the Grand Duke several times to tell him to stop awarding these medals. I think the roll goes until 1938.

wow!! Googlebooks I love, except over zealous library gnomes have copyrighted/snippeted materials well over 150 years old! Argh! That book of Nassau Annuals is VERY interesting. Thanks,

Ransacking my Waterloo materials I find no mention of him-yet. Dig, dig, dig. Bear?

Fantastic!! Why was the Independence ribbon shorter? The penny drops- AN UNNAMED WAR MEDAL!!??? was this standard? I have never heard of such a thing. Are you looking for replacement ribbons at all?

I can not tell you specifics, but I can state for certain that in 1995 I was at a gun fair in Utah where large US style refrigerator "baggie" BAGS of these were being sold for $100. That was about $2 a medal. The most common were the commemoratives and anniversarys, but there were also smaller BAGs of these campaign medals. The campaign medals were sold as "restrikes" (and looked genuine to me) from the Russian mint and the guys selling them said they'd got them from dealers in NYC who had bought them in Moscow: "The Russians will sell you anything for cash".

very, very cool. Are the police in India under local authority (e.g. Calcutta's Mayor appoints a commissioner-like in NYC) or is the police a national service with regional postings?

That looks like a single-piece cast item. I can state FOR CERTAIN that these were still being made in 1999 by a firm in Madrid and said firm was ONE of the sources of the British-ordered and now infamous "333" and "666" EK2s floating about. You could tell by the ribbons and the thinner, easily tarnished + bent edges. This piece here looks almost home-made.

Thankee! Hungarian is VERY difficult to decipher using babelfish and my trusty 1950s dictionary. I appreciate you help.

Nice!! An item BEGGING for research. I wonder how many people got these?

never say never-the french publish regimental histories too and there are muster lists out there.