Ulsterman

Great book, there are more badges to put in it though. There's german book with even more pieces. Although I understand there are unauthorized reprints coming out of Cave Creek, Az. I have been nagging VA for years to redo the book (and come here). I hope he does.

Oh My ...Gosh- The hardest men in the Red troubles- I wonder how many Spartakists he did away with. The ultimate Freikorps piece! That should be in the Federal Museum. You don't collect shabby things do you?

Actually, didn't it come from Utah? Ogden? That was /is a great photograph. I sure miss the old Jeff Floyd catalogues. RIP good veteran.

wow!! That is a fantastic collection!! What you need though is one of these-

in rummaging through rabbit-eaten photo albums last night I came across this and thought I'd post it for PK, because he's fond of "fast classics". The picture is much sharper than here-the tabs say "60" and the skull on the front plate is quite sharp. The cuff title I think says "4". I reckon it's @ 1934. Slainte-

oooh- I like that Brunswick bar!

the reverse is that used upon old sovereigns. It is commonly seen-a la the infamous "Ludwig of Bavaria" medals floating around-about the necks of forms of alcohol.

Is it a fake, or renumbered?

ouch!! Still, a wonderful piece of history-"to have seen what it saw, be, where it was".

Ernst Rosenhainers' daughter, Ms. Ilse Hance, presently a resident of warm and sunny California and a very nice lady with whom I spoke yesterday, wrote an excellent book entitled "Forward March" in 2000. Based upon the still treasured volume of war memoirs of her father, it is well worth reading. Oberlt. Rosenhainer received not only the Ek1, and (I assume) the wound badge, but also Ehrenkruez (Tapfer und Treu)from Mecklenburg Strelitz AND the Ruess Ehrenkruez x. I have invited Ms. Hance here to have a look. Can any of the gild of research gnomes help her with additional information regarding her father, a brave and decent German officer?

Nope-my error. I thought by the front that it was the navy medal for 1851, but now that we can see the rear that's the 1852 campaign medal. from Gillinghams' "South American Decorations and War medals, 1932" (many errors, but still THE best thing out there in English). "Founded by decree on March 14, 1852 for the troops under General Urquiza taking part in the war with Juan Manuel Rosas, the dictator of Buenos Aires during 1851-52. In three classes, gold, silver and bronze. The ribbon is green edged with red." The usual Latin American tradition of battle/campaign medals was bronze=enlisted (usually NCOs), silver =jr. officers and gold= Colonels/Generals. Brazillian troops were allied with the caudillo general Justo Jose Urquiza' in mid 1851 after Urquiza' broke with Rosas. In return later for for significant Uruguayan territorial concessions (but mostly to rid their southern border of Rosas) the 1, 500 strong Brazilian army intervened against the Argentines and helped defeat them at the battle of Monte Caseros on February 12, 1852. see here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Batallawe.jpg" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Batallawe.jpg</a> Rosas was shipped off into permanent exile in Europe shortly thereafter. Given the over-officered staus of most Latin American armies of the time a ratio of 1:10 would not be impossible, so figure @ 150-200 total jr. officer's medals made/ awarded. It's unknown if the allies got medals too.

That looks like a Meybauer glossy enamel one.

sweet! To own one of these 17th century conversions has always been an ambition of mine. What a great piece of history.

Oh yes, this stuff still "surfaces" from time to time. Not as often as one would hope, but it's still out there. I picked up a button this morning in fact ($1 at a flea market). There's actually a deck gun off one of the U-Boats in someones' ocean-front yard in York supposedly. -My town sports a 1918 Krupp artillery piece, complete with 21mm bullet holes in the shield and the next town up has several complete trench mortars sitting on the Police lawn. There's a nice museum down in Kittery with all sorts of stuff in it-and even more in the warehouse. The local historical societies have even more. Even more interesting are some of the people who surface in Portsmouth. Besides the triannual pilgrimage of presidential hopefuls and their enteroges, all sorts of odd folks end up in this corner of the world. In the past 20 years I have met retired Rumainan Princesses, a Latvian SS war criminal (who became a monk), the ex-"Fuhrerin" of the U-Boots' wives Association in Hamburg who after the war divorced her husband, married a Yankee Doctor and moved here (and is helping me translate the history of IR 432 -all handwritten in pencil scribble 1920 sutterlein) and who has "amusing" stories about Donitz and an ex-member of the Barder Meinhof Gang! I don't know what happened to the U-Boats, but there are hundreds of people out there who saw them. By the way, Portsmouth, despite the lawsuits and almost continual legal skirmishing over the navy yard, is actually in tax-free New Hampshire (actually an imperial colony of Massachusetts these days), not the free and sovereign state of Maine. I'll call Seacoast on-line and see what they have in their photo archives . Also, the navy prison was the inspiration for the Disney Castle-no kidding.

sweet!! What sort of things did one have to do so as to be awarded this medal?

interesting attachment device! So, what sort of person was awarded these?

well, narrowed down to @10,000 (+?) other recipients I reckon ...

Ohh- I hear That! Hunyadi???

...and here is "the" owner in 1918:

-same here. I bought two lee Enfields 1940 pattern for $40 each from the local K-Mart in 1985. Ammo was dirt cheap and it used to be great fun to go to the target range. Sadly the pins degraded over time and then the wife made me get rid of them. I miss them.

Cool-what unit?

Hold on, I don't think he's sold it yet.

While we are on the subject: He is also offering these. I know zip little about these, but have a vague memory of a BDOS "Falshcung" article @ 2-3 years ago about them. I would HATE to see them go to Der Fraudmeister": What do you chaps think: Bone fide or modern copies?

me too-this is the sort of stuff that over the next 20 years someone will need to repair something-or it'll be useful for an article.

you got THAT!!!! for 450 pounds!! Well, I am happy that for once Regimentals gave away a bargain!