militaria0815

He served in the Bavarian Reserve Infanterie Regiment 16 and the Bavarian Infanterie Regiment 2. His civil profession was baker.

Adolf Hitler also served in the RIR 16 and I guess he is on the photograph (1st from left). Very interesting!

Hi militaria0815,

can you please show us medals, model 1 (blackened iron) and/or model 2 (patinated zinc), with the helmet design shown in Post 1 and 9?

No matter, a temporal delimitation is always possible with the help of the different materials, see Post 20.

Uwe

Uwe, sorry but I have not made pics of all the Bavarian firemen medals I owned in the past.

I find this combo highly unlikely without the ubiquitous EK2.

There is no proof for a helmet design change in the statues. About half a million medals were made in different materials by different makers. This is the only admissable expalanation one can have for differences in helmet type.

Red ribbons were for professional fire men. Most bigger towns in Bavaria had professional fire briagdes, in small towns were (semi-) volunteer fire brigades which means that young man had to join these brigades, otherwise they had to pay kind of special tax.

The Bavarian 25 years long service medal was awarded 360.000 times between 1920 and 1936.

Good looking badge, but I agree with Alex, markings are not typical for Juncker.

Most probably a shooting medal because of the target in the medal center.

Hello,

excuse me. What do I need to be not a "public" person?

Thanks

20 Euros.

As every year. Second weekend in October, i.e. 10th and 11th October 2009.

This years special exibition is about the German Colonial Commemorative Medal (Kolonial-Denkm?nze)

Opened on setup day, Friday 9th, for public at 13:00 for a higher entrance fee.

It's hard to tell from the small scan, but it looks OK to me. You can send me larger scans and I'll post them for you. Great photo

There are still many around and so far no fakes made, not ot 3rd classes. Early war case. Doubtless original set.

Hard to estimate when you have it not in hands, so far questionable.

Hello!

Very nice bar.Congratulation.

all the best

Nesredep

Thx for all the congratulations. Although 1282 medals were awarded in WW1 medal bars and medals do not appear very often. One gets at least 10 Bavarian bravery medals ( about 998 awards) before one can find a Baden medal.

Very nice. What did he do to earn it?

I will get the information soon and will post it then.

Very nice bar. Do you yet have his citation?

I do not so far, maybe it is still in the family, they will search for it.

and the backside:

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#2

I got that beauty out of winners familiy today. Winner was Robert Wolf, GR 110, March 3rd 1916.

I am sure that most medals were missing and replaced sometimes. A really bad look and a much too high sales price.

I would guess following:

-Liyakat medal in Gold

-Imtiyaz medaL in silver

-Horp Madalyasi (Galipoli star or Eiserner Halbmond)

-Life saving medal

-??

-Austrian merit cross in silver (silver oakleaf??) or Franz-Joseph-order

OK, finally back in London after visiting the Land of the Rising Yen. The certificate here was awarded on 1st April 1906 (Meiji 39) and it is for a 6th class Order of the Rising Sun. I would need to dig out my kanji dictionaries to work out the name of the recipient but what is interesting is that his name is not preceeded by any indications of rank or office. The 1st April 1906 was the date when the mass of awards were given out for the Russo Japanese War.

The fact that he has no titles or previous awards indicated, as well as no official ranks or job titles, suggests that this is his first medal and he may be a member of the Japanese Red Cross. Even schoolteachers had their job mentioned on the certificate, the only people I have come across so far from the Meiji period with no job title is Red Cross volunteers.

A nice certificate but unfortunately impossible to research on its own.

Paul, great and helpfull information, thank you very much and happy Xmas!!

Some good guys want to let him pay very high charges to ebay,I think this is a very good idea to stop this criminal.

Yeah it was funny and riskless as both bidders know who the owner is. The "seller" sent emails hourly to the high bidder about payment and a meeting point and all details. It wa so funny I was close to piss myself. :cheers: :cheers:

I am out of London for a few days so i will do a full translation when i get back. It is a nice Meiji era cert to a civilian.

Thanks a lot, I am anxious to learn more details!

If you post a good photo of it here I will translate it for you.

Regards,

Paul

Great, thank you very much! Enclosed the document pic.