Ulsterman

Note the date on the letter....the SA rEservists were busy putting them on.

note the homemade bavarian bar

Superb photo!!!! @ 1938?

Many thanks sir! I appreciate your scholarly efforts. A key regiment too.

My thanks Sir! You are a scholar and a Gentleman!

uh- I don't like that backing. have you blacklighted it?

Try "Red Cross" in Iowa-he's a font of knowledge-and an OMSA member to boot!

I have this book. Everything Col. Al. Gleim did is well worth having. The 42nd Div. was entitled to the following clasps(Circular 46 War Dept. June 30, 1924): Defensive Sector Champagne-Meuse Aisne-Marne St. Mihiel Meuse Argonne I note the 26th Division also had these clasps.

...and what about the ones for 2006? perhaps German exports are still in production.

wow-the one that got away. So the final bid was 1100 euros?

The bronze medal may well be original to the bar. There was an article a while back somewhere about a Prussian Doctor (MD) who was a combat surgeon in the Union army in the US Civil War and then went back home during the Franco_Prussian war. He was given BOTH bronze and steel medals by the grateful Reich-and there were documents to prove it. it was odd-but odd things happen(ed). I'd leave it alone.

um-that is a noncombtnt's ribbon. bronze on a noncombtnts ribbon? bronze on combat ribbon= fighting in France steel on combat ribbon=in uniform in Germany steel on noncombat ribbon=stretcher bearer in combat.....but bronze on nocombat bar?

Nice badge! Only 3rd class had a wreath?! I learn something every day.

and on a similar theme-off a recent auction i won -

I know -and dislike-this family rather well. I believe there were two or maybe even three Buddenbrocks active in the Napoleonic wars. The chap you are looking for I believe topped out at Major and was elderly by 1850. The Almanach has extensive genealogy on these folks. A Buddenbrock grandson also surrendered Spandau to the Russians in 1945 as I recall. Buddenbrocks seem to have congregated in the artillery, although todays Freiherr once told me they were "always cavalry" (which I think was posing snobbery).

Yes I do. Do you perchance have one about? I would love to see an example.

See here: http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/31-1-37.shtml

It's a dig about german medals being mounted by certain firms in London-or at least sold therefrom. They also tend to follow British precedence and sometime British mounting styles. Alas, they are becoming more sophisticated, thanks to the internet.

Looks like a classic-"this was put together for my wedding" bar-given the flowered arm on the mans' left and the flower drooping from the bar. I think you are right KVM-really, really interesting bar and picture.

Once again you astonish and delight me! By the way-did you know there was a "Old Guard" medal for KISZ members who stayed loyal to the Communists in 1956? It was awarded at the 1960 conference- @ 150 times.

wow-shame about that medal bar. Looks like an "London style" mount.

what is #7? Quite a Bavarian huh?

wow. I think you have a winner. #1 is dead on, as is #2, #3 could be a reflection flash and #4 is so dark-who can tell for certain...? but it matches yours.....ribbon 5 in the pic has swords-as does yours, there's 2 LS awards in the right place and the last ribbon also seems to match! Also, there's the odd, if not unique double mounting...I really do think you have his bar.

I bought this a few years back:

Yup-that is phillip. I'll dig out his email. Interesting about this archive. There were and have been rumors for years and years that the Russians hauled away a good chunk of Hess's department archives, including a complete duplicate master index of NSDAP numbers and party cards- as well as several Gau archives.