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I can not, even with magnification, read the unit stamps. Can you post them separately? Abt. ll 0 and a what I assume is a stammroll # is interesting though.

Well, the bar obviously dates from 1940, as the ostensible Austrian Doctor would have had to apply for his HKx, which I think was handed out only for a few months in 1939-40 upon application. The Sudentenland medal (awarded for events that occurred six months AFTER the March 1938 annexation of Austria) was awarded in 1939-40 (maybe until 1941? I can't remember the cut off date). It is odd that there is no Military Merit Cross, no red cross medal and no Austrian WW1 war medal. That penultimate medal gives me more pause too. The German nobility-only Knight's Marian cross I thought was given for hospital work in the Orders' hospitals. But whoever he ostensibly was, there are no LS medals (and he'd have had the time in certainly, given the 1912/13 mobilization cross and the Jubilee medal on military ribbon, so maybe if this is legit, it was put together AFTER the suspension of Wehrmacht LS awards in 1939 (or is it 1940?). So "wrong" it's probably right, because the story, sort of, seems to ring true. RR-what thinkest thee hereupon?

An odd little one:

Very cool. This would make a good "pinned project". These items were 'there" and seemingly, still affordable. (Sorry-actually, now I look at this close up, that hat badge is a designation, not a tinnie).

Are those 1920s Coppers? Prison wardens? Look at the epalettes.

Magnificent!!!!! Three Cat salute! :Cat-Scratch: :Cat-Scratch:

Gentlemen: I have the highest respect for you both. "Paris44(?)": Jeff Floyd, who was also there in your time and served as traffic control, has an interesting story about the Air Medal one night watching a transport going back and forth. My neighbor, Angus McCauley, who was also in the 1st AC in your time, came home with over 40 Air medals. He got a Bronze Star with a V on it too and stories that turn my hair white.

Could he be a dR? Is that a danish medal at the end? :speechless1:

You know-looking at it my head says' "OK", but my heart says there's something not quite right. ......perhaps it's the Sudenten at the end. Ostensibly a bar to a reserve Doctor type?

nice regimental badge. Do you know of any resources out there on these badges? There seem to have been hundreds of them.

very cool! Thanks for posting. That's the first Eire DSM I have ever seen in "real" life. That is quite a bar!

WOW!!!!!! Now that is a beautiful piece! Think of the history it witnessed.

sweet! well, suss rather! What is medal #7? I would wager 50p that he was a resident of berlin. Odds are he's on the list of German SWA chaps. I think Gordon McGregor has a complete listing.

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He was a young one, born: 1748- died, 1815. 3rd company/7th battalion?

No-he doesn't. Some things are perhaps not funny. I tried to look up Schmidt and found little. As the bar was one of Tony Colsons' though and Flak88 is a good guy, who was a friend and comrade of Tony's, perhaps someone can locate who this general actually was. I have wondered how he avoided having more than he did on that bar and where exactly he was in 1870.

I think he's Italian-see the medal? Unusual though for an Italian, they mostly wore green uniforms. The Neapolitens wore every color known to humankind. If he's one of Josephs' Majors, he'd look like this though. Hmmmm...again, off to the scrolls.

I think a surgeon. They were not allowed officer status, despite Baron Larrys' protestations. They had official uniforms, but are shown in semi-civvy dress and had much greater lee-way in their affairs than military officers. The twisted, braided white cord is ringing a bell. Hmmmmmm......off to the scrolls.

Pre-war and post war, where troops were not transferred so much, one saw company and regiment letters/numbers. This was esp. true for National Guard troops. Sometimes the organization details got exotic-like this state JAG officer.

Whats' the top one? The helmet and rifles? Have you seen the Colonels' bring backs? Amazing ribbon bars and that flag!

Thank God!! A lifetimes' work well done. The book is wonderful and useful beyond measure. Well done Rick! Chris Boonzaier wrote that he served the muse Clio. I thought of that quote last Monday. This is a fantastic work of historical analysis that will reshape how everyone in our "club" views these awards (and for those interested in these baubles as measures of cultural, political and social power as well as achievement) it will change in some slight but important ways the way the German imperial military was comprised. Bravo and Hurrah! A three cat salute! :Cat-Scratch: If I can be of any assistance (to paraphrase the late, great Warren Zevon): 'lawyers, guns money'...let me know.

Not un-ironically, The Prussian King actually (re) authorized the medal after Hanover was absorbed into Prussia and the Hanovarian King went into exile. A Hanoverian rank-list from the era would show the officers. There is rumored to be a medal roll of some sort, if only an order-of-battle, out there somewhere.

oh- My God!!!!! Treasure! Treasure!! That is a wonderful find. Three cat salute- :Cat-Scratch: :Cat-Scratch:

Lots of tell-tale "good signs" (rusty staples- paper warp-hmmmm.....), but this one I'd like to have in my hands and read the unit assignments. Still, from the front, it doesn't appear as if this guy was all that exciting and the handwriting certainly looks 1940s. Have you blacklighted it?

Glad you found them. i tried, but NO mini medal ribons. Nobody seems to know where they get them from too.