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Everything posted by Mike Huxley
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Your right Rich, with the German pass everything is contained in them, unlike those from the British in WWI. For more information on our troops you have to trawl through masses of archive references just to find out anything on their service record or awards. But, at least our medals are impressed with the name, rank and service number, unlike German awards.
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This is the part of military collecting I enjoy the most along with the medal collecting and research. I have approx 150 Militarpas that I'm slowly going through and trying to trace the backgrounds of the people in them, along with award documents. My main area of interest is the Saxon Regiments that were on the Flanders front as this ties up with my Grandfather who was with the 23rd London Reg at the battle of Messines on the 7th July 1917 and was wounded there. Finding out about the Saxon forces that were opposing the attack and the guys in the battalions is a fascinating insight into history. Mike
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Your right about experienced collectors, and I am amongst them for many years. However I am referring to the not so experienced who may be trapped into thinking a piece is genuine. With the rise in methods of reproducing medals it is easy for the unsuspecting to even get caught out by reproductions, as we have seen even on here over the last few years. I decry any form of reproduction and feel that all those perpetrating this should be called out. The interest and hobby is about collecting and researching the real bars and medals that were won by many very brave people throughout history, not the replication of made up ones. That's me finished with this subject. All the best, Mike
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I also agree with doing the same as you, and in fact did this for my late Father-in-law, who's medals from WWII were lost during a house move. The difference is, his medals were kept in the family and can be backed up by his official service records of awards. My gripe is about reproducing historic bars that have no connection to you and include genuine medals and not ones that are identifiable as replicas. These types of bar can in the future be passed on and find their way onto the open market for vast sums of money, that some poor individual who doesn't have the full knowledge of it's background will buy. By all means, make a replica bar, but use medals that are fully identifiable as replicas.