Ulsterman

Beautiful!

I know I've already responded-but i want 1 of everything.

too true, but this may have come from the Charles Grant collection and in that case it's 1000% dead to rights. I'd pay it-if i had that kind of dosh.

" Don't suppose you find a Lt. col Haasmann of IR 181 in that roll do you? His doc. 32,759I is on auction at ebay (Oct. 20, 1915)

wow!

wot does the book with lenin's head behind the chain say?

I believe a type #1 was awarded to an official in Turkey in 1918-it was in a Spinks auction @ 5 years ago. I'll go to the attic and poke round the archives.

Ah- my error it appears to be a "type 2.5-that is a "normal 1914 EK2. Lot 264 Spink catalogue #5/12/2002 documents to Dr. Wilfreid greif, Marine-intendantur-Sekretar at Sofia: docs consisted of EK2, Liakiat X, Baden WMK,Bav. WMK, Bulg. Order of Merit5thw crwn., Aust. service cross (mounted as worn) along with 2 Gallipoli stars (one made by Godet) and Baden and Bavarian vets' crosses. (sold: $700.

Ah-the big question then, could one have received the professional badge and the excellent worker's badge- and maybe even the projects medal as well as other labour awards?

Fascinating stuff, I am hooked-as you know.

So, the general "excellent workers' badge" was for factory work only ? I thought the professional awards were abolished after 1950 or so.

wow! That explains the newer box. Very cool.

Wow!!!!

That is sweet!

That my friend is a very early Hungarian workers' badge in a newer box. See Hunyadi's posts on Hungarian items (#52 and #58 below). By the way-if it's for sale-let me know.

I have photos where Ek1s were added later-often at great expense in terms of time and effort to get the angle just right. I presume that these were done by very proud recipients who wanted to make certain that people knew they'd received the prestigious EK1 as well.

How about this one-no badges, but nice:

#2 is a vanity Weimar piece: the Ehrenbund Deutscher Weltkreigsteilnehmer" (the german honourable association of world war participants") and the last one is the Deutscher Volksorden Bekenntniskreuz 2nd class-rather rare and worth quite a bit. See Detlev's book at 2.02.16-18.

Your Silesian Eagle is heart stopping.

That paratroopers' uniform is a treasure! One of the more obscure and dramatic battles in Hungary took place when the Hungarian paratroopers and the german King Tiger Abt. outside of Budapest destroyed an attacking russian Brigade (s). There is an upcoming book on the siege of Budapest (and it is depressing reading) and this was an incredible encounter.

sign me up for two or three.

..baited breath here....

...and said book has been promised for 2 years now!

Any news on its arrival? i have a gap in my bookshelf awaiting its publishing.

Yes-it was some sort of official press photo. It has the original press tag on the back from Jan. 1944 and was later reprinted in the 1966 OVerlag German book "1944".

The men are all vets and that's the Marshal himself.

Nice and rare. Wearing those in mid 1945 would have got you shot out of hand.

very cool stuff! I LOVE those workers badges. LOVE,love,love them.

The partisans are a really fertile collecting area. I've been delving into some very obscure academic and secondary works and looking at some of the US reports and evaluations of their activities on microfiche. These people were hard, hard cases-and most were determined Communists. Not a few were also violently anti-Semetic. Others were remnants of the "ragged guard" who had fought Bela Kun, the Czechs and the germans WITH the Poles. I note that the Partisan Association is one of the groups in the new Peoples Forum, which by their manifesto is the reworked Hungarian Communist party.

..and aren't those swords on the red cross medal?

Isn't that a big Karl silver bravery medal? The medals behind the imperial red cross medal make me think Hungarian. I don't see a long service medal in there.

Looking at the medals' order-it appears the austrian medals are recognized as 'german'-which perhaps means post Anschluss, but pre long service medals issue. Makes you wonder who wore it without a long service medal-SA/ SA reserve/ party official/ DRK?

Really nice bar-to a man who fought in at least one tough battle and probably saw a lot of combat in france. I'd bet he ended up as an NCO and had a schnalle too.

It is the Hessian "war honour decoration":

see Dave Danners' most excellent site:

http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/hessen.htm