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Ah- so he was in the Almanac then. His Mum was a princess?! Cool. Please, do you have details on his career at all? -Strikes me he might've been a supporter of Beck and Stauffenberg.

Hmmmm...#101 might be traceable with that Wurtembergian campaign medal and all.

Yup-very off LS medal. Helpfully he wrote at the bottom: "...into the future" -Freiherr Alfred (???) Lundburg,(?) Landfuhrer. Also, I think the bar says "Hophu"

Ah- but look at the throat. How did he ever get THAT?

whoa- amputated his own leg? Well, I know what's on to "buy list" next month (after your book).

um, what are its dimensions? weight? is it magnetic? Does it rattle within the frame? What does it smell like? What does the frame taste like? (odd, I know, but one can taste silver).

Cool- I got the Luwero Triangle medal-given to veterans (civil and military) who fought against Ugandas' dictators (esp. Idi Amin) in a very nasty place in Africa. The ribbon has blue on the edges (this one is for photo purposes only). Looking on the net one can see that there have been complaints about deserving veterans not receiving their medals in timely fashion.

wow! Looks like you got a good one; look at the "chocolate" inner relief on the 100 oval.

nice and unusual-and they look a bit British (made and designed).

Kings African Rifles I think- ...... a rather unusual group too, with an rare combination of stars. Oh! If they had only allowed them to wear the Ethiopian Victory medal!

#11 looks a lot like the star in the Goeben officer's picture (under magnification).

Hi Terry G. May we see your BB & Co. versions in closer detail please(esp the top one)? Do you have weights/dimensions for them perchance? Ta- QS

A wearing copy? or awarded piece? There were what-@180-200 of these given out? Wherever did you find this?

Good Lord! That's 33% of Timm's production! Gordon McGregor has Timm's ad in his book.

I believe this chap is wearing one. The color shift makes the yellow look darker. One can barely see the black lines.

Well, RR can tell you more about it than I, but according to Hessenthal and Schreiber, it was founded on Dec. 2nd, 1873, on the 25th anniversary of the Emperor Franz Josephs' reign, for award, "without difference in rank or station" for service in a campaign in the service of the Emperor from 1848 onwards. Made from "cannon metal". Awarded to persons who served in the Bosnian campaigns of 1878/80 and 1882, the China expedition. Also,it seems to have been (self) awarded" to persons who fought in the AH armies in WW1 before the death of the Emperor in September 21, 1916". Recently, it has been reliably reported that Austrian veterans' societies also awarded the medal to members who served in WW1 in the 1920s and 1930s. There were a number of different variations and privately made medals. The doc. below was emailed to me recently from a collector in Austria and it shows the award of the medal by a vets' society after the end of the monarchy.

Well, remember, this is only our opinions. I haven't kept pictures of "reenactors stars"so can not be definitive. We have been wrong before and sometimes err overly on the side of caution. Please hold on to it-just in case. It's another datapoint. For all I know it could be a Bulgarian made varient from the 1930s ...odder things have happened (like that Sedalzek Baltic Cross I once sent back was a real vets' piece proven by a photograph no less). Still if avsibar and others here thinks its a fake......

In the 1830s there was a aristocratic revolt in Poland against the Czarist Russian occupiers. There is an excellent overall history of the campaign and some really well written (a la Flashman!) personal memoirs by "soldiers of fortune"/adventurers and political neo-Bonapartists/Liberals who served in the Polish armies (@60,000 strong). There were strong personal ties between the Polish aristocracy and the french (esp. Bonapartists) who had served together in the Grand Armee'. Had Marshal Poniatowski lived after Leipzig Napoleon (said) he'd planned to make him King of and independent Poland. There were a number of large battles and by 1831 the Russians had crushed the Poles, many of whom fled to France. After the revolt Russia absorbed Poland directly into Russia proper, ended Poland's separate "Grand Duchy" status. the Russians awarded campaign medals for the campaign in Poland and the capture of Warsaw Chopin wrote the famous Polonaise in response to those dramatic events. The Arringtons bookshop had several of these early editions, which mentioned at length medal awards and acts of gallantry, about 5 years ago. Most leather-bound volumes run @ $250 each and sources are few and far between. It's an interesting subject and one I've only spent about an hour on. It's one of those things I always thought, "hmm, that sounds interesting, I must research that one day". There were later revolts as well, some of which were photographed in 1863, in some of the earliest war photos ever taken. I'm willing to bet there's quite a bit of information on 1830 in Polish, as yet untranslated.

whoa-who is that in the last picture? Civil Guard? Police?

No confusion really, merely listing both the types of Soviet-US awards that Gleim listed. If he had lived, imagine what else he'd have discovered.

There is an MVO list-or a potential one. What was his name? perhaps we can track him down...... Pity he never had them all mounted-he'd be a one-man 20th century German history lesson. By the way-a gold and a silver Anschluss medal, or is that a Sudeten one?

Darn! Another illusion shattered. One to put in the "fakes file".

Is that Le Mans a real bar though? If so, not a bad buy in and of itself. Interesting "Seekampf" too-as if might be to a Matrozen Division member (weren't they all on the coast in Belgium?).

Hi Bob! Wilkommen ( zuruck)! Ich hoffe, dass Sie jetzt besser sind! :cheers:

Those are GREAT pictures! :cheers: