Claudio

Dear forumites,

I'd like to show some "fuzzy" pictures taken with my Iphone (excuse me the terrible quality) of a collection of miniatures of a Bavarian collector and "part-time dealer"...

Ciao,

Claudio

Hi Paul,

I don't think the wearer was Bavarian but rather he was from Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen....

C

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Another ribbon bar a found... interesting combination!

@ Seeheld: magnificent trapezoidal bar... even better with the Godet miniatures!

@ Komtur: that's a rare bar... very, very nice! I guess you made a lot of Bavarian collectors very gelous... Fortunately I am not one of them... :rolleyes:

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Another small but very interesting ribbon bar... :rolleyes:

@ Komtur: beautiful small tuxedo civilian medal bar! I didn't see that bar on dealers table... you must have very quick then! If I had seen it, I would have purchased it as well... I am happy for you that you find something nice for your collection.

@ RAO: I remember that Johanniter cross... beautiful! Gold! ... and also in its case, I believe...

C

... and the back is even more exciting for a "Godet" fetish like me... the configuration of the needle-pin construction screems Godel all the way, plus it has also a uncommonly seen metal label of the reknown juweller in Berlin as well!

I have to thank Paul for this one... I love it!

...and it came with a name too!

I also love this pre-WWI privately purchased reservist crosses... so decorative! :love:

Thanks Ulsterman!

Oh god... I didn't remember to have read that threat... I would have noticed it immediately in Gunzenhausen, but believe me I couldn't find any of his other bars...

Now I only have to hope that the bigger brother (medal bar) shows up somewhere... sooner or later! Just patience...

Hi Doc,

That's not at all a silly question... but it can quite easely be researched, since the name doesn't sound very common.

Just after a couple of computer clicks I found more info about my Ompteda (as a writer):

Georg Freiherr von Ompteda

Geboren 29.03.1863 , gestorben 10.12.1931.

Der Schriftsteller Georg Frh. von Ompteda wuchs in Wien und Dresden auf, schlug 1883 die Offizierslaufbahn ein und besuchte 1888-91 die Kriegsakademie in Berlin. Nach einem Sturz vom Pferd 1892, der zur Dienstuntauglichkeit führte, mußte Ompteda seinen Abschied einreichen und lebte als freier Schriftsteller in Berlin, Dresden, Meran und München. Er übersetzte die Gesammelten Werke Guy de Maupassants und schrieb zunächst in Anlehnung an Maupassant Gedichte und erotische Novellen. Größere Bekanntheit erlangte er mit seinen späteren gesellschaftskritschen Romanen, in denen er ein neues Adelsethos propagierte, so vor allem in der Trilogie "Deutscher Adel um 1900".

Werke u.a.

1889 Von der Lebensstraße (Lyrik)

1891 Die Sünde. Geschichte eines Offiziers (Roman)

1897 Deutscher Adel um 1900

1898 Eheliche Liebe (Drama)

1911 Die Tochter des großen Georgi (Theaterroman)

1923 Ausgewählte Novellen

1929 Sonntagskind (Autobiographie)

von Ompteda family:

http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelNDB_n19-534-01.html

on the above-mentioned link you find both Omptedas... so they are related. The family Ompteda originally came from the Netherlands; that explains why the name sounds so odd to be German...

Ciao,

Claudio

Attached picture of the older Ompteda writer

Yes, Chris... I remember that group...

I think that if you really look, you will always find something nice for your collection without paying top dealer prices!

C

Thanks Chris...

Now I should begin to read the book...

Here's a nice slightly convex EK1 I also purchased... it's marked 900 on the back.

C

Book of written by Georg Freiherr von Ompteda about his experiences on the Russian front during WWI in a cavalry unit...

Back of the ribbon bar...

Dear forumites,

Here I am showing what I got in Gunzenhausen... a ribbon bar which came with a name, photo in civilian attire and a book written by the wearer of the ribbon bar.

Thanks to the seller (Christian L.).

Another interesting ribbon bar... :rolleyes:

A still "un-named" German staff officer's ribbon bar, veteran of the Franco-Prussian war 1870-71....

An interesting 7-place ribbon bar...

I like the swords on the BMVO on this Bavarian ribbon bar... :whistle:

This one I have alraedy since a long time... nice the swords on the Schaumburg-Lippe Militärverdienstmedaille, like the one of Wildcard (btw great ribbon bar "alter Art! )

C

Here are mines... this one recently purchased from a fellow collector (thanks!). No name yet... ;-)

As far I know there was just one class for Officers of the active service...