notned

Thanks guys!

Stogie what do you mean? by a 'heck of a jones'????

Regards

Paul

Hello Gents,

I have a query as the Anhalt bar has arrived and is in my sweaty ( not really sweaty..) hands...

The Bulgarian war medal...the finish is so bright it looks almost a fake!

Now have these been faked( i think not as they are common as muck!) but the finish is weird....

Anyone else care to comment? have the gents got examples of these to show?

Thankings you kindly

Paul

Hello Gents,

This one came in the post today!

A lovely single Mecklenberg cross

unfortunately it has been sewn on back to front...( i was led to understand that the FF was to the front...)

It was touch and go as the seller did not show a pic of the reverse of the bar, and i was sweating a bit ...thinking that it was pirated from a medal bar and would not have the felt backing i so desire...

But alls well that ends well...as i when i got it today...i was pleasantly surprised to see that it had a nice grey cloth backing, yum yum!

The cross also appears to have been sewn down to the bottom of the ribbon as there is some gold thread still there but the medal has come unattached from the thread and hangs loosley.

The cross itself is in very good condition...

How many of these were awarded? and how many of the first class were awarded?

Thanks Gents

Kind regards

Paul

Hi Jens,

a nice group! thanks for showing us it!

Regards

Paul

Hello Gents,

David, the ribbon is yours PM an address. any others you need? as i know a shop in town that has lots of WWI British ribbons..

Tom, thanks...i should have thought to do that to make it easier...

#19 isHindenberg cross

#20 is Hamburg cross?

#5 is Ludwig cross

The remainder....Hmmm, any ideas?

Maybe we will need better pics...

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Paul.

Nice Bar Nico!

I love them with the felt backing...Just beautiful!

Heres mine with minatures and ribbon bar too! came as a set!

Kind Regards

Paul

Thanks Paul!

Yes i thought that the Anhalt on a medalbar was a bit hard to find....

But we will need one of the learned Gents to shed more light on this..

Lots of veiws...no comments......

Hello Gents,

I scored all these ribbons some i can see are German but some are unknown as yet....

Some i will be keeping...as i have medals for them....If anyone see's one they desperately Need....i will send to them...free of charge!

like some of the other Gents being generous elsewhere...and in keeping with this spirit.....

Will post better pics when they arrive!

I posted two pics ...one i made slightly bigger for detail?

I think that the topmost one is a ribbon for an English Neck order....CBE? not sure...

But what is the strange one with the two colors? Green and Yellow????

Comments invited!

Regards

Paul

Hello Gents,

Another bar which is finding its way down here.....

And a single parade mount Mecklenberg KVKII

Comments are welcome!

Enjoy!

Kind regards

Paul

Nice Austrian pins!

Cheers

Paul

I agree with Bob! its a very nice piece indeed!

Thanks for showing!

Regards

Paul

Just had a look...Never seen a 966 marked EKI before....Hmmmm

Baaaad Asss fakes indeed!

Some people....i dunno....

I second that! Wow!

he must walk sideways with all that tin!

there is two medal bars there!

Thanks for sharing the pic Thierry!

Hello Gents,

I have several KO crosses but only tow not on bars, and they have different cores...one would have the dates up high and the 'W' is standing out more proud than the other one which has the dates down low..the crowns are different with the low date having a low crown and the high dated on the crown it sticking out more proud

Maybe the gents at 'KO' contracted out the core making and thusly they come from different sources...

Hmmm, food for thought....

Kind regards

Paul

David,

I agree..you do need to have a basic understanding of the language to decipher the script...but my biggest gripe is the writing style...its the sort of writing you have to really study to ascertain which and what letters are being used to portray the words....for example...Karlsberg...looks like tarlsberg in the script..bit confusing if you had no idea...but i did know of Karlsberg....

Yes i am now starting to see the wisdom in having the groups...it really does tell us more...about the man who went thru the wars and earned the 'gongs'........... brilliant stuff! and ..........it tells us

about the" PERSON" involved....this is my first real group...and i have asked the seller if he has more...and if he has contact with the family....I wanna know more! ( and i want a pic of the soldier! and i want the Soldbuch!..... it just makes it more real!)

Cheers mate! for sharing your experience with reading and deciphering these important pieces of History

Kind regards

Paul

Gents,

I do not condone this sort of behaviour at all!

and i am ashamed to say i have bought a bar of him....

the only thing wrong with it...was either he..or someone else had replaced the pin with a poor excuse of a pin...Blimmin thing had scorch marks from being run thru the grinder to remove the swarf from the end of the pin..the sharp end...Gawd!

But this sort of mutilation is INEXCUSABLE!!!!

would the gents like his E-mail....to bombard him with cries of

"Shame on you".... i can supply it for this purpose.....evil grin....he heh!

Wow! my education is getting better all the time!

I had no idea! ( but then i am a baby when it comes to this hobby!)

Thanks Gents

Paul

Yeah! i seen that one and burst out laughing...Impossible it screams at you!

David! I take my hat off to you!

Thanks so much for the interpretation of his service records.

I am in awe of your ability to read all this!

I must apologize for the jumbled order of the postings.... musta been tired LOL

If i can help in any way with information from this mans records for your database please do not hesitate to let me know..

Thanks Biro, ( Marshall) good to see fellow New Zealanders on this Wonderful forum!

Thanks Stogie...i aimed to share this mans amazing service records and to show that there is still groups out there like this!

You will not belive how much i paid for it!....wait for it......

63Euros!!!!!!!! i know...i am still blown away !!!

Cheers gents,

Paul

and just so we can take a wee break in the document scanning....

heres my latest arrival!

A nice wee single EKII medal bar with felt backing

and still more...

and so on.....

Gents...if you can shed any light on what the writing is all about...

i would be ever so gratefull!

continuation....

even more!

More !