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Beautiful!!!!! :Cat-Scratch:

Bravo!! Is it a royal gift or a commemorative?

Pretty cool pic. there-add Rick and Otto and you have the World Imperial Collecting Central Committee! :cheers:

Hmmmmm......I small article here. Is there a Bulgarian military museum/collector with comparatives?

With the utmost respect, rockets were probably more effective at long range bombardment than cannons-even 12 lbs.. there are accounts of single rockets exploding and whizzing about that routed entire cavalry French cavalry squadrons....veteran ones. They were wildly inaccurate sometimes, but terrifying.

Imperial fakes are fewer than TR, but the "high end" ones are deadlier and more varied. Most of the "it's a fake" regarding TR are true IMHO. Several world wide firms have been making souvenir pieces-some from the same dies as the originals, since the mid 1950s. One export bill of lading to an American dealer in Maine in 1963 noted "1,000 Iron Cross pin backs" for $1.25 each. These were not dull, made-of-lead bits of crap, but "collector copies" that looked almost the same as the originals. Most collectors do not realize just how widespread the industry is/was two generations ago. A recent analogy is Iraqi militaria. Six years on and 90% of the stuff available on eBay is post 2003. By "good book" do you mean about fakes or do you mean about imperial awards?

There is a LOT more information about Ernst out there-for one thing he founded the KGL veteran's aid society and had quite an eventful social life.

I think its' a mule. Can we see it vertical? It may well be Romanian. :Cat-Scratch:

damn! what a wonderful Wurtmbrg. bar!

Les: FYI, the Waterloo medal was SUPPOSED to be for everyone at the battle, but there were a number of individuals and even a few units that were denied the medal for cowardice etc. etc.. MGS 9 clasps: Christopher Schultz, 5th Line Btn.: Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes, Ciudad, Salamanca,vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive: 310 pounds: Sothebys' March 21, 1974 ("property of a gentleman"). many, many more to add to the list. :Cat-Scratch: Hold On-are we doing officers only?

I thought it was timing. Wasn't the noncom campaign (1870) medal enacted @ 6 months after the original combat medal?

cool! Both were hard won medals-especially the Sevastapol.

wow! something new in the field of British medals. Were BWM awards not made to SA black troops because of the SA governments' racial stance, or was there another reason? I remember reading in Purvis and I think medal News that someone had come across a medal index of awards to officers of the Labour Corps. Surprisingly, there were a significant number of Chinese Imperial awards given to British officers of the LC.

Now THAT would be cool! The OMSA site can always use a bit more info.

...so, I think I just learned something new; am i reading this correctly to mean that there was such a thing as a noncombatant's GMVK??? ...issued in 1914-19?

:cheers: I bought almost exactly the same knife @ 1974 for 50p. Mine was minus the diamond, but I reckon it's real.

will there be a handout/monograph?

As an aside-a similar cuffband was made in/for Vietnam. Gordon Williamson I'll bet has details.

1918: 2 (both to Yankees)

Very,very interesting. At one time the Burundi royals in exile had a website and this medal wasn't on it. I suspect it is the Republican version of the Prince Rwagasore Order. This is a "redone" version : http://www.royalark.net/Burundi/burundi10.htm

Good Lord- a treasure trove. As an aside, what sort of awards did gestapo types get (if any)? There's a history PHD. thesis there ("Career Trajectories of mid-level Gestapo members:1930-45").

Neat! Are they common in Hungary? Any for sale?

yup-so this guy was younger....makes you wonder exactly who he was....Baltic signals?

wow- I LOVE this thread. I've learned more about the Zulus in the past fortnight than I did over the past 40 years!

what a wonderful little collection. the Stahlhelm badge is quite nice-early-ish for the organization and I reckon its' worth 50-100 euros. the fire volunteer's medal is also charming @ 10-20 euros? The Lagensalza medal is a treasure, probably to a Pvt. in a line regiment. I personally REALLY like these, but they only go for @ 50-75 Euros. There is some sort of untapped archive out there for these medals, as the Hanovarian OOB (order of battle) for 1866 is available and there were only @ 25,000 Hanoverian troops at Lagensalza. It was a Pyrrhic victory as the Hanoverian supply lines were cut, but the Prussians lost (badly) and the old, blind Hanoverian King, Great-Uncle of the Empress Victoria led his troops on the battlefield, using his ADC's reports and descriptions of the ground/events to direct the movements of his troops.