Claudio

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Dear forumites:

I would like to show you a bar adquired by my brother Marco this year. I requested some images from him... and here they are! Quite colourfull ribbons. What's interesting, it's the combination Bavaria-Reuss (Silberne Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern)... and of course the 3 ribbon bars which go with it!

Ciao,

Claudio

Yes, Ulstermann, you got it right. It was unofficial medal for Bavarian monarchy's loyaists, awarded in the twenties.

Ciao,

Claudio

Joe,

The bar went for a quite steep price... over the double of its starting price. Bavarian medal and ribbon are very desirable in Germany.

Ciao,

Claudio

Hi Sal, Hi Rick,

Is it his brother's medal bar?

Ciao,

Claudio

Hi Paul,

It would be interesting to see how quick and how many CD will Detlev sell on his website... Keep us posted! It's intesting to see how many collectors are really concerned with studying History and what it's behind the medals: real people, soldiers...

Ciao,

Claudio

Hi Christophe,

That is an incredible group... how many years ago had Clauss' group on sale on his catalogue? It must have been not so long ago... strange I missed it! I always follow HH catalogues...

Wonderful set! Did you get something from this group?

Ciao,

Claudio

For tonight the last interesting pictures... of an Indian Police officer and of camels in Aden! Hansen has been around... good for him!

... more pictures!

The top picture: isn't it from the caption the famous city (harbor) of Port Arthur... in a couple of years these places will see some action in the Nippo-Russian war of 1905!

As you can see Hansen used to "sign" his postcards on the back with his name and address... Rick, could you check his address??

Again, lots of pictures of countryside and locals, usually depicted too small to be viewed properly...

Where the heck is "Swatow", "Swaton" or whatever?

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Transcribed by RR: "Soochow Creek I" and "Swatow Thal m. Kak...io v SW." These pencil ones are a bit light for me on first passes. Swatow is indeed the place name. And "Soochow Creek" is a place known to all 1930s United States Marine collectors!

other two nice pictures... always when there're people on it, there's no description! Arggghhhh!!!

For your reference I put also the dates on these pictures... quite impressive... these are more than 100 years old.

I think that, more than today, for people on the turn from 19th to 20th century, to be able to travel so far and see such different people and places must have been quite an adventure. We can't even imagine nowadays, since we have all the instruments to travel rapidly (planes, cars, trains,...), to be informed (TV, Internet, radio,...) and to communicate in English almost everywhere... I am currently living in India and can't even imagine how uncomfortable could have been back then for an European to live in such hot and humid country with no comforts at all...

Chinese countryside... strange shaped rocks, pagodes,....

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transcribed by RR: "Felsbildungen am Abfang das Mt. 'Beaty' in der N?he von Swatow. Prov. Kuangtung." and "Lung-wa Kanal mit Pagoda Oberhalb Schanghai."

Other two pictures: the first showing a Chinese "worker" in Schanghai and the second showing Tschinkjang's Harbor on the Jangtse-Kiang. This spelling is copied from the German titles... I think these places might have different spelled names nowadays.

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Transcription by RR: "Arbeiter von der Werft in Schanhai (dasselbe von 325) Sud-Chinese Phot. Dr. Hansen." and "Hafen von Tschingkiang am Jantse-Kiang. Blick Flussabw?rts. Im Hintergrund die "Silbereifel" u. SMS Seeadler."

Yangtze River mouyth, apparently

Thank you guys for your nice words.

Now I will try to post some more pictures...

You can see the SMS "Seeadler" on the first picture. On the pictures themselves I pasted also what's written on the back. Maybe Rick can help me decyphering some of the descriptions...

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transciption by RR: "Seeadler vor Hankow" and "Blick auf Amoy. Im Vordergrund Gr?berfeld."

On deck of his boat...

China...

Hansen with his comrades officers celebrating... notice the quite stiff pose of the Matrosen serving the "Herrschaften". I am not so sure to see Hansen on this one... maybe again he's the photographer?

Is he there, Hansen or is the one taking the pictures? You can see a guy in the middle wearing all his medals... he must be the local German Consul... in China!

Finally I managed to post also this photograph showing Hansen somewhere in Africa. I guess he's the guy in the middle with the beard.

Ciao,

Claudio

I have to stop posting pictures... I already reached my attachment's space limit... that sucks...

Ciao,

Claudio