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Now, if you'll excuse me - I have to squeegie the drool off of my keyboard. Be back in a minute.

Personally, I rather enjoy the DIY Weimar strangeness. Granted the standard Bulgarian / Hungarian / Austrian commemoratives are a bit droll, I find the various veteran's association decorations quite interesting.

Well, yet again, the Lucky High Bidder can contact me here afterwards for the ID on this one. It's a tricky one because this is an "appearances can be deceiving" group to a VERY odd character indeed.

Rick, if you wouldn't mind, could you drop me a clue (whenever) as to what sort of person the recipient was? Still trying to develop a mental picture of what sort of folks would have ended up with the Dutch decoration on that bar.

-C

Isn't that a S & L piece?

I think the technical term is S.O.L.

Does the reverse match the reverse of this medal? (Found uploaded to a OMSA database listed as a Carlos I "Royal Household Medal".)

I'd say this was probably a German civilian/diplomatic bar.

Can you zoom in on the round silver medal with the blue and white ribbon...

a Certain Person is going to FLIP out seeing that ribbon in there.

Whomever do you mean?

I've never seen this one before either. Splendid quality, even if it neglects to state who issued it. Definitely Saxon.

We need a book on these ? 1920s Verein type awards.

I have the strangest feeling I have seen this ribbon before, but I can't put my finger on it. Hrm.

I, for one, would get in line early for such a book. Weimar decorations are an infuriating hobby.

...and the lucky bidder can't even open the package without incurring the full wrath of the law. Such a shame.

Does the pattern or insignia on the helmet covers depicted in these photographs ring any bells with anyone?

I'd say the plain red was the civil Luitpold Jubilee, leaving as foreign orders an Ernestine and a plae blue in last place that could be either a W?rttemberg Friedrich or a Prussian Crown.

Most interesting to me is the OFFICIAL 1918 Wedding Jubilee Medal ribbon in 3rd place.

Definitely a civilian.

Would that place the blue edged red ribbon as the Hessian Phillip, or as the similarly ribboned Bavarian decoration whose name completely eludes me at the moment?

Also might the placement of the 1918 Jubilee be indicative of an overly royalist bent?

Great lapel bow. I would say definitely a civilian, Major-equivalent. Hessian Philipp, probably White Falcon, Ernestiner, Prussian Crown Order. No RAO4.

With White Falcons being as uncommon as they are, does this look like it might be ID-able?

This lapel bow is the most interesting item in a lot that will very soon be winging it's way across the Atlantic to yours truly. I wanted to throw it out there to the collective wisdom of the group for evaluation.

My main questions...

Officer or enlisted? I don't know enough about the St. Michael to know what grade indicates what.

Is the plain red ribbon likely to be a White Falcon, or the civil grade of the Luitpold Jubilee?

What sort of person would have had this sort of a combo?

...and last but not least, the label. It doesn't really show in the photograph very well, but the date is 1945.

What unit does this represent??

...the reverse:

Just picked this up today, on a complete lark. Wondering if those of you who actually know something about British WW2 militaria could help shed some light on this smock, and share whatever observations come to mind.

I stumbled across a gun camera in mint condition, complete with a film cartridge. I haven't had a chance to take my own photos yet, but it's the same as "Ref. 907" on this page:

http://www.warbirdsite.com/museummustang.html

Anybody have an idea how rare of an item this is, and what the value would be?

Thanks,

Chris

My absolute favorite for Coburg so far has got to be Knight 2nd X to Lt dL I Max Br?ckner of the amazingly improbable sounding

Railway Troops Underwater Smithy Section 5

(Eisenbahntruppen Unterwasser Schmiede Abteilung 5)

I think that was borrowed from Monty Python...

and will settle down for a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng winter mired in Sachsen-Meiningen

though there is HOPE that there MAY be additional material on Baden's Z?hringen Lion Order to COMPLETE the rolls where Erhard Roth inexplicably stopped in June 1918 AND have some new and unhoped for Bavarian material as well.

Bavarian? *perk* Do tell... Do tell...

(Would it help if I told you that my middle name is Richard?)

Hi guys--can anyone tell me what this is?

Link to unknown cross

Many thanks,

Gaffken

Looks somewhat Belgian, but I'm way out of my area there. Certainly nothing I've seen before.

Do I spot there two Iron Crosses???

Both 1914 ?nd 1940 types???

Yep... EKs for both world wars.

Is there NO limit to the fiendish ingenuity (and utter lack of knowledge AND common sense) of militaria criminals? This is laughable. The thing is, some uninformed ("Find eBay... no find good militaria websites.") person's REAL money will be paying for this garbage.

First time I've seen the M1957 TD ribbon (or is that a True Fragment of one of Elvis's gold lam? stage suits?) used on a fraud like this. "A" for novelty,

for fraud.

I especially like the fact that it's a allegedly a sanitized 1957 ribbon bar, but that the eagle is perched on something that has to be concealed from eBay...

This ribbon bar should start this thread off to a suitably painful start...

Hi,

I dont find this on his site anymore ?

I don't remember how old those photos are, but I've had them on my hard drive for some time now.

Dinnae ye ken nowt? Tha' yon's the MacFakerty plaid.

Prussian Cross of the General Decoration for 35 years or so service BEFORE 1914...

silver and GOLD Ernestine medals before the war...

silver medal and Merit Cross (gotta love the Xs on the ribbon of the cross with Xs) WW1 with tiny ribbon Xs...

freakishly mismounted precedence...

Mini Ernestines which do NOT match the big uns...

and that ...

Yugoslav style mini monstrosity Anno 2004-ish.

Ah dinnae reckon sae.

So we can't use the tartan to help with an ID? (Field Marshall MacKensen?)