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Having held these in my hot little paws not more than 4 hours ago, I must say that these were/are beautiful awards! Note the slight casting "bump" or extra flash on the lions' back.

Good Lord!!!! That has to be the RAREST buckle out there.! I learn something new here Every day.

I do not-BUT, I have Glenn's CD and can place whence the EK came from and from there, perhaps flesh out a skeleton career. others here are the masters at this type of research however.

:speechless1: :speechless1: wow!

Have you seen Flak88s' medal bar for sale? It is the same combination of bars. the generals' bio. is easy to flesh out.

sweet! ex Lt dR?

Not a diplomat? I thought the second and third medals were Saxon and saxe-Weimar.

Mecklenburg-Scwerin cross?

wow-just saw this. can you focus in on the star? looks Turkish made to me-flat.

very,very rare indeed. Actually, these were probably awarded in the Fall of 1933 as well, before the Stahlhelm was "coordinated" (amalgamated) into the SA Reserve entirely in 1934. There were fewer than 250 wearers of these awards at the time-and photos from 1934 show a number of the older stars still in wear up to the disbandment/purges/amalgamation.

Isn't he a Catholic pilgrim to Jerusalem?

Hmmmmmmm....... B L-R is very rare and sniffs Hanovarian/Mecklenbergish; only two Hanovarian Brigades with some attached units and a small Prussian advance guard were in the battle. Maybe Oldenburg cavalry? RR has unit lists -maybe even of this one.

alas-sorry, I have no mini medals ribbon. But Medals of America i think does. let me call.

Because the classes meant different things. The Prussian veterans' honor medals were only given to fewer than 10% of the membership for merited service to the veterans' association. The gold ones were REALLY rare and given for the same thing-and for longer time served in the association. People who got the #1 class for example included most of the senior 50 year plus chapter "fuhrers" as well as occasionally, some REALLY old vets. I have newspaper clippings of awards in 1931 to surviving veterans of the 1866 war against Austria-65 years later. One old man was a veteran of the 1848 troubles too! He was 102 years old.

On-line the Jordanian ribbon bars look fantastic. Anyone got any in their collections?

4 minutes!!!! RR-you should charge, you really should. :speechless1:

front row middle or far left ?

...probably still running at top speed up the autobahn and twitching. :rolleyes:

I checked yours before I bought/posted this one. They are similar and possibly made by the same person. Odds are they once stood near each other on the same parade ground in Addis. This came directly from Ethiopia-and made my postladies day (it was her first Ethiopian parcel in her 20 year career).

Aged High Grade Medicinal Cocaine; you now have @$2K street value. ...and 35 years in the Big House statewide old chum :Cat-Scratch:

Beautiful!! A brave NCO?

wow!! Lucky, lucky M1815!

Seems like a lot of trouble for an aspirin.... really interesting stuff. Can it be analyzed?

Imperial Ethiopian awards are fascinating. The tasty tidbit below is superbly made-of a weaving, hand-made quality that hasn't been seen in Europe since Disraeli was prime Minister. Each thread on this ribbon bar is INDIVIDUALLY wrapped tight around the bar and tied off in sequence and reinforced by a cotton backing. I have never seen anything quite like it. It's almost minty. The medals are the campaign medal for 1935-41, the exile refugees' medal,the British war medal and British Africa Star. The Ethiopian awards were promulgated in late 1944 and issued in 1945 to standing troops under command of the God-Emperor, Hailee Selassie. Given the quality of the piece, this was almost certainly worn by a very tough man from a warrior, aristocratic family. If I had to bet money, the son of a Ras-or "Duke". Notable is the lack of any Orders or bravery medals, which were commonly handed out to senior (as in age and social status:it was a cultural aspect of Ethiopian society at the time) commanders and persons who had done particularly exceptional acts of bravery/merit. In studying the chaos that was the Italian-Ethiopian war, it is clear that many of these young men fought wars that would have made Rider Haggard's hair stand on end. It is not uncommon to read of ambushes of Italian patrols lead by young clan chiefs wearing 400 year old chain-mail and lion robes, brandishing scimitars and Lee Enfields and closing in at a run down rocky defiles as the Italians fired away with machine guns. It was somewhat akin to Scottish Highlanders, in full cry and almost inevitably, if the ground was well chosen, the Ethiopians got in amongst the Italian firing line and hand-to-hand combat ensued unlike anything seen in the West since Edgehill or Prestonpans. Italians memoirs are replete with the horror that these encounters: "Carlos' head was split in half by an screaming (racist term), like a ripe tomato. Then he cut Paulo in half -sideways. They were wearing black armour, white trousers and had bare feet. I ran away as fast as I could" to paraphrase one Italian account. The Anglo-Ethiopian army spent the years 1941-44 eliminating the Italian remnants in the Empire (inc. Eritrea) and harassing Vichy forces in Djibouti. After 1944 the imperial army spent its time eliminating bandits and competing local Rasta's militias (some of whom had collaborated with the Italians). They consolidated imperial power around the throne and began the painful process of modernization of what had been a medieval society, complete with fiefs, slaves, feudal courts, Monastic power and feudal Lords warring amongst each other. This ribbon represents that era of imperial political consolidation.

what medal ribbons do you need?