Ulsterman

Very interesting. is there a maker on the back?

They are similar to modern Argentine awards.

That is very,very nice. What is the collar insignia?

Yes, he should be in the index-

yeah- sorry to have muddied the waters there, I was just so impressed by the Graf -and his awards- I posted it.

The picture was probably taken @ 1860-66, which would fit for a mid 50s year old man.

Does the Gotha have anything else on the Freiherr from Altenberg?

so-not a cap badge, but a quasi official proto partisan badge?

Nice.

A subtle change... the EK section is slowly going to appear...

http://www.kaiserscross.com/

please keep this in view, it will take a form that will surprise you....

Heather Locklear, Jamie D' Ascalia?

I have 1886:

There is a Graf (!) von Beust is listed on pg. 30 as a Gen. Lt. under "Adjutanten der Deutschen Fursten" (not a bad job that).

General Adj. d. Grandduke of Saxony:

Black Eagle 1, (something I can not i.d.)EK2, Johan. order-knight, BL1,JVAS1,SLVM,MWK1b,NA1,NL3,NgL1,LEK1,OEK1,OV1,RWA2c., RW2,RA1mBr,SA1,GSF1mBr,GSDK1,HSEH1,SS1,SJ1,WK2

phew!

wow. I finally got to look at this. You know, if this was bound, I would buy it in a heartbeat. I can not wait until the EK stuff gets put up.

a couple-but the really good ones I was outbid on.

note the sequence #-so @ 150,000 awarded to Germans-?

Interesting indeed! Now I know where that one of the five went.

That is superb! A well earned and hard fought for campaign medal.

As I have aged and decayed, I have come up with a stunningly wonderful, fool-proof, zero-aggravation method for dealing with group splitters:

I do not bid on ANYTHING from such dispersals, EVER.

This is what i try to do-but i do take notes. Group splitting destroys a link of evidence that proves certain things-like imagine if we could go back to 1965 and find complete groups with BB & Co. Stars along with "awarded to me at X, on X.I.1917" on them (in the original envelope with a company name and address on it even better). We would have proof positive that BB & co. were war time awards and we would not have spent the better part of 10 years arriving at that conclusion from a variety of different sources.

Splitting destroys history.

but...what is that ribbon? Nassau-?

wow! Nice nice nice. The history that little bit of metal saw-

yup-hit the wrong key. My error.

Baden NCO Frack bar?

40 year state service-maybe 25 only though.

Is it Durant?

All those troops and assets would have made a huge difference in Afganistan, never divide your forces...

Regards;

Johnsy

So would allowing European NATo forces to fight in Taliban/Al Queda areas. More than a few countries don't allow their troops in the southern areas.

Niiiiiice group!

What really jumps out at me is the 1958 sports in though-note the metallic composition. That speaks volumes right there (RE: Partisan badges).

Whats the size and weight?

Interesting stuff. Nice pin-note the alloy it's made of and the year-1967.

The island patch-was it an arm shield-or a ribbon bar like emblem?

Baltic Cross, Iron Roland, Silesian Eagle . One sees other banned awards occasionally in photos though. The Baltic and Silesian were both for action against "foreigners" and I'm willing to bet the Iron Roland was a tip of the hat to the local party loyalists.

and also here:

http://groups.msn.com/MISMALVINAS/medallasyestandartes.msnw

I found a very poignant website dedicated to a young Argentine boiler room engineer who went down with the Belgrano a few weeks back with all of his posthumas awards, but alas, now can't seem to locate it.

See also here:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...ficial%26sa%3DN

Twenty five years on from the initial attack on port Stanley, there seems to be a mini boom going on in Argentine web sites about their war.

There is almost nothing out there about Argentine awards from the war, apart from Jeff Floyd's article many years ago in the JOMSA. There was a specific Argentine campaign medal, a KIA medal, gallantry and merit awards and apparently a wound medal.

Since then there have been an explosion of provincial commemorative awards in Argentina, as well as seemingly a number of variations on the campaign medal.

There may even be a few "fakes" out there.

A large number of merit medals were awarded, as well as gallantry awards (some well deserved indeed).

See here for a look at some of the ribbons:
http://www.avejer.ejercito.mil.ar/menupr.htm

alas! 5 years on the web link has evaporated as with sooooo many Argentine web sites!