Ulsterman

This is a tab I found in a cigar box at a boot sale yesterday.

I know nothing about Luftwaffe uniforms or insignia.

It doesn't glow (except for a few specs of dirt).

What branch is it?

Ta-

Because there are very few books available on the subject in English and nobody like Rick Research to publicize them on the internet. He manages to make the subject much more interesting and rewarding.

The "drome"? Some sort of WW1 fliers' site perhaps? I'll do a google.

Here's the back: awarded 1913-1919/20. No more than 500 were awarded-at best.

I vote Greek Redeemer Order also. These awards all point to "Merit" rather than "battlefield" as well as "officer". Berlin had a large White Russian community well into the 1930s and there were even a few remnants into the 1970s. The lapel bow is uniquely German in style, unusual and not "sexy" enough to be a cash-magnet fake, so I think it's exiled White Russian officer @ 1920s stuff. Nice.

W O W !!! Not a single word on a Zeppelin Becher or a cased Zeppelin badge. You guys are tough to impress! I gotta look for some ribbon bars...

Bloody Hell, I just saw that. What L ship did Volkman serve in? They had an 70% casualty rate did they not?

This is my rare one, not that glamorous really:

what does the back of #3 say? It seems to be a 25 year commemorative of some sort.

Another one: A French Priest:

I have not seen the series. I am no guru, but there were a few color photos taken-mostly French, in WW1:

This is a "bloodbath" image I borrowed from ebay:

My apologies in case one of you got it.

uman,

What is it that is being faked? Photos?

Chip

Yes.

Some are photoshop high quality rescans on older cardboard backings (notibly French ones)...others are multiple reprints of one photograph (Ba-re on ebay does this), but I have seen two that I would wager are "reenactor" shots. Military Image Magazine has had a series of articles about these faking techiques over the past decade. As prices soar, more seem to appear.

The E.H. is also faked/copied. Many are made in Turkey even today-even some blue ones.

Absolutely! And it would also be good to get more images of them being worn by Turks, not only by allied foreigners (= Germans).

I have @ 100 more. I shall post them soon. Any idea where I could buy more? I really like them, but I wish I knew more about the individual units.

another... March, 1918: EK2

Because it (the EK) was the great unifier - a symbol of a common cause in a divided nation suffering the throes of great socio-political and economic dislocation, regionalism and growth. It was the one thing a rabid Social Democrat and a Prussian Junker could both venerate and earn equally. It was also a symbol of the past that was optimistic-a symbol of a Germany on the rise and "uber alles"-a defeating her European rivals. "They had ceased dealing with the Fatherland in terms of their minds and gave it only their hearts."

In 1939, the party was the central focus-hence the swastika.

In November, 1914 the American war correspondent Edward Fox was in Hamburg and wrote this:

"In a restaurant I saw my first Iron Cross, black against a grey green coat and dangling from a button.

On a broad landing of a wide marble staircase the orchestra played soldier songs and above the musicians, looking down on his people loomed a bust of Wilhelm II, Von Gottes Gnaden, Kaiser von Deutschland.

About him, between the flags of Austria-Hungary and Turkey, blazed the black, white and red, and there where all might read, hung the proclamation of August to the German people. We had all read it through to the last line: "Forward with God who will be with us as he was with our Fathers"- Then we heard an excited inflection in the murmerings from the many tables- "Das Eiserne Kreuz!" . And we saw the officer from whose coat dangled the black maltese cross, outlined in silver. The waiter led he an his beautiful, blond, crinolined companion to a corner table. His cheeks flushed, proud of a limping, shot-riddled leg, proud of his Emperor's decoration, but prouder still he was a German; he must have forgotten all of battle and suffering during the brief walk between the tables. Roaring cheers rang out, clapping, then a song, and when finally the place quieted everybody stared at that little cross of black as though it had a hypnotic power.

Feb. 1918 EK2

July 1917 EK2

Wow.

That wound badge is the ultimate private purchase award!

Obrtlt. d. R Radewald @1918:

Dreher=Paul

Bengel=Joseph

Finsterlin=Ludwig

Schramm=Wilhelm

Maussner=Joseph

Muller=Maximillian

Mussbach=Heinrich

Rudolph=Ludwig

Sailor=Gustav

Neubert=Hans

Do not have Narr, Nerz or Goss.

Didnt you want to show how it was worn, once way back when? ;-)

Indeed-damned camera

But oh, I wish I'd kept the badges.

Damn-

Almost a year too late. Col. Gray was a very good friend of my Dad. He once leant me his ENTIRE Skinner's Horse library and gave me a turban wrap when I was a kiddie. He would have known.

See here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...0/16/db1601.xml

Still, his wife might have some of his stuff. The Regiment might respond to a letter invoking his name.

Arthur-Becker-Medaille, 1st variety, silber / Arthur Becker Medal, 1st variety, silver

Certificate dated 7 March 1969, Haarcke and H?sken, #319.1.1.

Dankwald actually shows up if you google him. There can't be two in Eisenach.

But with the black/white colour shift, sometimes it appears reddish:

So this is an example of a regimental "bravery diploma" like Adolf got?

Any comments????

By the way, I bought mine from an ebay seller called "Ba-re" in Berlin. Last time I shall do that.