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Thank you Laurentius! Is the RK of the Luxembourg (Nassau?) Lion Order so big? It looks almost a Komtur cross being worn on the medal bar... Thank you Andy for your valuable information!??? Gentlemen, which order do you think it is on the forth last position from the right, the Maltese shapened cross with white enamel? For sure not the Wurttemburgian order of military merit, I thought maybe from the ribbon a Waldeck HO... thanks again for your valuable and very appreciated comments. ciao, Claudio

Dear Forumites, This officer portrayed on the picture here below, Major (Oberst?) Karl von Röder, was in the UR19 or UR20? Enjoy the picture! Many thanks for your inputs. Claudio

Thanks Nicolas, but I needed to know what colours are the four last ribbons and the uniform (tunic). Cheers, Claudio

Dear forumites, Here I'm posting a nice picture of a German General Abraham (very teutonic kind of family name) RKT with Oakleaves wearing also a beautiful General field visor cap "old style". What kind of uniform is wearing or what colour do you thing it is? Is it a tropical (tan) tunic with closed collar? That's quite unusual. Note also the Foreign ribbons on the bar after the DA eagles (Long Services). Could you guess which one these are? I can see one blue ribbon with a star shaped metal device (very likely for an Italian Silver bravery medal), a crossed swords ribbon (very likely Rumanian) and the last one the Rumanian commemorative medal for the Eastern front (Crusade against Bolshevism). I don't know which one could be, the fourth from the right. Thanks in advance for your inputs. Cheers, Claudio

Dave! ?????????? You are the Man! Great research work... thanks also to Sascha! ? I checked but he wasn’t directly related to General der Infanterie von Mudra PLM m.E., if he was he would have also had the aristocratic prefix “von”. Now we have also a face.. Thank you all!!!?????? Claudio

Christophe, I post this for you, if you meant this as described by Sascha... I am not sure.

Dear Christophe, I think that you rather meant the first medal bar I posted, with the BMVO3KrX: Generalleutnant a.D. Karl Wilhelm Arthur Otto von Fabeck: Karl von Fabeck wurde am 6. Mai 1867 in Hannover geboren. Als Second-Lieutenant kam er im März 1887 zum Garde-Grenadier-Regiment 3. Über eine untergeordnete Tätigkeit im Großen Generalstab wurde er 1911 1. Adjutant des Chefs des Generalstabs und 1913 Abteilungs-Chef. Mit Ausbruch des 1. Weltkrieges wurde er Abteilungschef im Generalstab des Feldheeres und im März 1916 dann Kommandeur des Garde-Grenadier-Regiments 3, bei dem seine Karriere begann. In der Folge sollte er noch das Kommando über die 4. Garde-Infanterie-Brigade und die RW-Brigade 15 erhalten wie auch Mitglied des Reichsmilitärgerichts sein. Ende März 1921 wurde er verabschiedet und verstarb am 22. Juni 1957 in Bad Kissingen. Laufbahn: Kadett 22.03.1887 Sec.Lt. i. Garde-Grenadier-Rgt. 3 1900 i. Großen Generalstab 1903 Chef 1. / (7.bad.) Inf.Rgt. 142 1911 1.Adjutant d. Chefs d. Generalstabs 1913 Abt.-Chef i. Großen Generalstabs 02.08.1914 Abt.-Chef i. Gen.St. d. Feldheeres 24.03.1914 Kdr. Garde-Gren.Rgt. 3 02.08.1916 Chef Gen.St. Gen.Kdo. VIII. Res.-Korps 1917 Kdr. 4. Garde-Inf.-Brigade 1919 Mitglied d. Reichsmilitärgerichts 16.05.1920 Bfh. d. Inf. RW-Brigade 15 01.10.1920 Infanterieführer III 31.03.1921 verabschiedet Patente / R D A : 22.03.1887 Second Lieutenant 30.05.1894 Premier Lieutenant 29.03.1900 P Hauptmann 27.01.1907 V5v Major 16.06.1913 Oo P Oberstleutenant 24.07.1915 U Oberst 20.09.1918 H Generalmajor I can show the reverse of the bar, but you can't get too much closer with the BMVO3 because it's quite tightly sewn to the bar. Cordially C

Thanks for your kind comments... I have here a couple of nice portraits of ladies belonging to high nobility pre-1914 in Prussian uniforms as well. About Queen Victoria's portrait I already saw it... She was chief of Prussian Infantry regiment. Nevertheless thank you Johann very much for showing.

Bit by bit is coming along... ?

Wow, thanks Paul! That's quite a spectacular display of orders! Do you think that in the case of Wilfsdorf's bar the ribbons on the Reussisches Ehrenkreuz 3th class and the Belgian Leopold order with swords (officer class) are both in violet colour... maybe the one for the REK3 is a bit more darker violett. Usually I saw these ones worn by officer without swords being with the violett ribbon ^see my second picture of a Wurttembergian Cavalry staff officer (UR19). What do you think about it?

This is his next project: Major Wilfsdorf Saxon JB12 later Generalleutnant (von). These photographs of such tiny and elusive elite units are quite difficult to find on the net.

Dear forumites! I would like to present my brother's last work of art, depicting a Reichswehr's General (Heye). We checked that all details are correct. It's a quite time consuming activity but during this voluntary isolation time due to the pandemic of Coronavirus, it keeps my brother occupied. Your comment are welcome. If somebody of you has some nice pictures of Imperial officers wearing their headgear and medal bar to share for my brother's next project would be quite great! In fact I noticed that is quite difficult to find very good quality portraits of officers wearing both their fine headgear (Pickelhaube - spiked helmet, Tschako, Tschapka or any other kind of headgear). Usually the portraits (photographs) they were mostly done without headgear, in order to show the whole face. Here is my brother at work, painting: Here's the finished work of art: Here's the research being done: Ordenschnallen Wilhelm Heye.dotx

Gentlemen! Thanks for your kind words. ☺️? This might be my best 1870-71 War Veteran and General medal bar...

Well, there are many medal bars I like in my collection... but this one it is one of the best I have... PS: BTW I am still missing a PLM in my collection! But this could well be the most important in my collection... medal bar of the 1st GFM of the 3rd Reich!

I got another badge to discuss, if there's anything to discuss. I think that the maker mark on the back looks good, but the pin has been replaced or fooled with... any thoughts?

Dear Vince, dear forumites, I received some more photographs (bad quality, I had to improve them, but I can't do wonders...) of some other badges. I start with this Bavarian Observer Badge (Halbhohl - semi-hollow). I don't quite like the pin on the back, although the patina on the front looks good. Any comments? C PS: the last mega-big picture of the front enamelled detail doesn't help very much... Here another badge Marine-Beobachter... this looks good, but I'm not so sure about the reverse (see pin). Comments? This other Marine-Beobachter badged the patina looks really weird on the front... on the back I have never seen maker marks of Juncker like this... almost if someone has tried to replicate it. Comments? This Marine Flugzeugführer Badge looks a bit better, but I presume this one was produced in the twenties or early thirties... the hinge of this pin on the reverse looks almost like a Zimmermann; did this maker also produced such badges? This Marine Observer badge is the one I like the best of all of them... Any suggestions? This Marine Flugzeugführer badge looks really weird... no detail on the front, it looks like someone has tried to make it look heavily worn... the hinge and pin on the reverse is really bad IMHO. The miniature (picture quality very bad) comes with this last badge in a lot. What do you think? Thanks in advance for your kind opinions and comments... I really appreciate your expertise! Best regards, Claudio

Dear Sandro, dear forumites, Here's a picture of the reverse of the emblem... it looks quite good IMHO. Claudio

Sorry Daniel! You are right.... ?

Now I have also a face to this trapezoidal old style large ribbon bar...

Interesting thread Chris! Here my contribution... very likely the same booklet. I had some scans done. Enjoy! Claudio

Thanks Vince... sorry but I got only this other picture...

Very, very nice shoulder boards... love these with these elaborate cyphers! Great buy, compliments! Claudio

Dear forumites! I would love to hear your opinions on these.. the last Bavarian observer badge (Pöllath) the catch have been replaced, it looks like a period repair. Enjoy the pictures! cheers Claudio

What about these? The first I like the reverse although the makers name is written with one T instead of two and the obverse is lacking a bit of detail. The second one, the “light” version looks very good from the front (Feuervergoldung with polished highlights), but I don’t like the hinge and catch... they look like re-attached. Thanks in advance for your comments! cheers, Claudio

Thanks for all Sandro! You quite gave me more valuable inputs... let see if they are ready to show some detailed pictures of the helmet without the frontal emblem, in order to see the holes and the frontal emblem on the reverse. Cheers, Claudio