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Mistery cap. the Kyffhauser badge is pre nazi era. is all what i can said . Current Kyffhauserbund caps are like Navy peaked caps ,dark blue Top with black woven band and black peak and chinstrap

Hello Chris ,  Its true, the Bavarian Army was big enough to have a Guard division . In 1914 was composed of Three Army Corps.with two Infantry Divisions each . It numbered 87214 men including 4087 officers ,doctors,veterinarians and officials . The Army was independent, their Corps ,Divisions, and Regiments or Bataillons ; Detachments etc numbered apart from the whole Imperial Army. Bavarian officers were not listed with the Prussians or Saxons or Wurttembergians. at least until 1914.regarding to the Leib Regiment i believe that Life Regiment is an adecuate translation . 

Hello, I told you , price ? between twenty to forty euros 

On 18/01/2019 at 08:43, buellmeister said:

Gents, 

Here is another recent arrival from the Vaterland.  Curious as to know what is in the right soldier's hand?

 

Joel 

 

 

 

 

A sort of mace ?

Hello , Personally I procured since I began to post in the Forum to maintain certain style.

My pleasure

Spanish ,Artillery. used on the left breast during the forties

Hello Alex K , On the photo appears the nme of the Photographer and those of two cities ,one Stuttgart,the other Bad Teinach ,the latter is a city in the Black Forest , a Thermal Resort. Spa .well , its possible that in Bad Teinach existed a military sanatorium or clinic

Hello , Certainly Wurttemberg , but Infantry? the  cuff pattern says that ,but althoug the photo is in black and white neither the collar or the cap band also the cuffs appears to be red . appears as if all is blue in colour and piped in light blue .including the SBs . This means Militarkrankenwarter . and what a such name means ? Literally  military Sicken guard. they carry the number of the army corps on the SBs and they were not medical personnel 

Utgardloki, After WW2  at least 30 Land estates belonging to some Kleist branch were lost first at Russian Hands later at Polish ones . Other two Families of Landowners located at the East of the Elba river were notables for their number.The von Arnims and the von Bulows. 

Between 1740 and 1763 in various wars the Kleist Family lost 53 men serving as officers in the Prussian Army. its convenient to note that is more correct speak of the von Kleist lineage or Name due to the fact that in modern sense existed many von Kleist Families .

Superb !

A very good example of the Austro Hungarian M1908 Feldkappe in Pike Grey colour. appears as without use . the peak has a leather made rim ,this was a feature of Officers and senior NCOs Field caps . but your cap bears the rosette, for troopers and NCOs. Rosette not cockade , with the Cypher of Emperor Franz Josef I. The cap belonged to a Common Army or Austrian Landwehr unit. the Hungarian Honved rosette bears the Cypher  1 FJ . the two segments of cord on the left side were to fix the Feldzeichen , Field sign . a branch of oak in summer and a fir twig in winter.

Hello, he looks as is it .then he is Graf Castell Castell 

VJK , Austrian Bundesheer General with the first type of uniform . very like the German Reichswehr ones. the man is a Cavalry or Artillery officer as his sabre shows

GreyC, 03fahnen posted into gmic under Imperial General collar tabs ,apart of a nice group of pics of collar tabs and uniforms photos of Generals included Prince Franz of Bavaria

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Well ,if you prefers, His Royal Highness conducted with oportunity and energy the Forces under his command that retook Ft Doaumont .

Hello, Could be Prince Franz of Bavaria 1875 1957, third son of KIng Ludwig, In May 1916,he was  commander of the 4th Bavarian Infantry Brigade in Verdun . He reconquered Ft Doaumont .

Hello , Bavarian Gendarmerie Wachtmeister is a possibility. year? It could be 1913 or 1920

Excellent !

8 hours ago, arb said:

I just read a PM which chided me for not responding to a post.  Here then is my response:

Your initial response did not answer the qu were.
 
Nevertheless, thank you for personally invalidating your earlier statement that Leibregimenter were so named because a sovereign was their "Chef"  A Großherzogin, be it a wife or mother, was no sovereign.  

In order to avoid such issues in the future,  perhaps use qualifying statements such as "generally speaking" or "in most instances."  Sweeping generalizations do nothing to further an accurate understanding of history.

arb und Grey C , In the German Empire ,a Federal Empire , existed four Kingdoms,Prussia Bavaria Saxony and Wurtemberg . each with the respective King. But existed also the Great Duchies , Baden Hesse Darmstadt, Mecklenburg Schwerin and Mecklenburg Strelitz , Saxe Weimar and Oldenburg. each with their Great Duke ,Gross herzog , that counts as a Sovereign. existed five Duchies and seven Principalties ,each with a Duke or a Prince , and finally there were three Free Cities , Hamburg Lubeck and Bremen that were Republics with a President of the Senat ,at the head.  contrary to whar arb thinks in the German Empire the Grossherzogin of Hesse counted as a Sovereign .

Hello,  very well made to be a fashion item ,and the Royal Crown was not a trivial symbol .

Hello, Strange one, appears as a Royal Navy officers cap badge, but It lacks the anchor into the oval . Officers of the RNVR and the RNR both weared the anchor , and surmounted with the letters RNR or RNVR , 

Hello, the last pic shows a Field Officer of the Garde Jaeger . The uniform appears to be a Kunftige Friedensuniform , and the transversal stripes under the Shoulderboards denotes a retired officer,