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Olive oil!!!! Now THAT is worth knowing!! Thanks-

Cool!! The bar was for continual service? I thought there were specific year dates. Colonial campaigns against the Malay pirates? Does the long service medal mean he was an officer?

...an original diary??????? :speechless1: How many pages? Egad!!! I am speechless. the Napoleonic War Society will be VERY excited. ...pic. of a curassier @ 100 years later

sweet!! You know , I smell OMSA article- :rolleyes:

awesome!!!

Outstanding!!!!!! What a FANTASTIC item. Where, oh where did you get THAT?

wonderful!! Information on ALL South American medals is scnat and sometimes just wrong (in English). Personally, I am desperate to locate extra Brazillian medal ribbons.

I would be VERY interested. I love the Paraguayan War stuff, can not read portugese and am interested to learn more!

It had to do with the combatant status of the individual. RR can say more (indeed I think there's a thread on these). One of the things I have noticed over the years is that Doctors/medical/ nurses who ran field hospitals in France originally were given combatant medals in 1872/3 and then a year later-got noncombat medals. I have seen THREE groups like this over the past decade, with the documents.

That is amazing! The painting work is superb. Oil based? Do you belong to the BMSS? You should enter these in the Wembley Competition. The Stauffenb. is my favorite.

Great photo! Did you see the OMSA article on Soviet awards to Americans in WW2?

OUTSTANDING!!!!!! you lucky dog! :jumping: Who was he/she?

My cousin sent me this picture because of the ribbon bar. He said she was a Seoul meter maid. Having had a look at her I doubt she's on traffic duty and suspect she may not even be a cop. Still, it's an interesting ribbon bar. Off to Antonio's ribbon charts!

...waiting for next post....what did it have in it?

Very cool. The tree he stopped under and made a speech/got a drink, when he rolled through here still stands-and is my towns' coat of arms. My ggggGrandmother danced with him when she was 15 years old. She was/is Rick's "Rich" cousin. I remember my Grandfathers' cousin, who met Granny Rich @ 1895 telling us that she'd said that 'Lafayette smelled like vanilla and strawberrys'. Quite a man- and the man who finished off Napoleon with his "a million of our sons are dead for nothing" speech in 1815.

Apparently prince Phillips' family deposited many documents into the royal archives before and after the war.

Egad!! I think that's the man! Can anyone tell from an army list if he had the Waterloo medal? I didn't see him in my Waterloo Roster. Anyway, thankee sir! I shall inform Mum that he's been identified and put you in for a Meritorious White House Christmas Tree Decoration.

...would heating it gently help?

Ostensibly veterans of the 'troubles' that beset Germany from 1918 to 1926 or so. One doesn't see many of them in photos, but they show up on Weimar era Stalhelm uniforms and sometimes on Nazi/SA uniforms-especially in 1933-34 when there was a mass influx of NSDAP applicants after the Machtergrifung in January. Many, many people wanted to demonstrate their allegiance to the new regime. It's my suspicion that 60% of these badges were purchased in 1933. I think there are documents out there (vague memory of a Detlev sold doc for one) showing they were 'awarded' in 1935 or so.

nail polish remover? ...it used to work on ink used on Eurail passes :rolleyes:

Yes, but in Maine only just after the Civil War. I believe most of the other invasions continued via upstate New York. Larkin later was a HUGE figure in the land reform movement, which is what gave the Irish Nationalists' their core voting majority voting block.

No-definitely the 4th Foot.

I have seen them as navy blue for Biddeford and Sanford. However, who knows? I have also seen snapshots of parades where they were wearing old WW1 uniforms with vets insignia on them.

In 1998 the 'Friends of the White House', a group of mostly elderly ladies (including my Mum) bought a miniature on ivory portrait of a British infantry Captain and a belt plate of the 4th Foot for $4,675. The portrait indicated that it was of "Captain R. Shaw, Honored by firing the American Capital 1814". The back of the brass belt plate indicated that Shaw burned the White House. The 4th Foot (one of my favorite regiments) barely made it to the field of Waterloo after disembarking and marching all night. They had taken part only a few months earlier in the disaster at New Orleans and shortly before that, helped rout the US forces outside Washington D. C. (including my g.g.g. Grandfather, whose flight earned him a 120 acre land grant in Tama, Iowa @ 30 years later as punishment). I find NO mention of Shaw in my Waterloo lists. Does anyone here (Bear?) have access to the New Orleans casualty lists? The Friends of the White House VERY much want to know. Successful acquisition of Shaws' biographical information may well lead to a personal White House Xmas ornament-free! Michelle Obama is the Chair of the White House Friends' Committee.

I found a HUGE box of old photos today at the local car boot sale. Enclosed is a photo of the local VFW commander-a WW1 vet @ 1941-1944. With a bit of time I can find out who this man was. Note the medals. The middle one I suspect is a legion medal that has been hand colored wrong. But, given that Lewiston was 85% french speaking and I think I see a fluer de Lys on the face, maybe it is an odd Franco-American vets' award. The infamous "Voltiger" Club on Lisbon Street, mentioned in several Steven King novels, started life as the local amalgamated vets beer hall..