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Hi Gordon, do you mind if I share your pics on twitter? I can most likely get a translation from someone on there. tony 🍻

looks like there is 👍 https://www.omrs.org/news/omrs/uk-volunteer-long-service-medal-roll-now-available

Hello Gents, Tom, I’m gonna throw this out and see what I get back…. 🤷‍♂️ I’m currently thinking WB is ‘Weiss, Budapest” From Wikipedia : ‘The Weiss Manfréd Acél- és Fémművek("Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works"), or colloquially Csepel Művek ("Csepel Works") was one of the largest machine factories in Hungary, located on Csepelisland in the southern part of Budapest, founded in 1892. It was the second largest industrial enterprise in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and the biggest industrial enterprise in the Hungarian half of the Empire. It played an integral role in the heavy industry and military production of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Founded by Baron Manfréd Weiss of Csepel, an industrialist of Jewish origin, by the time of World War I the company was one of largest defense contractors in Austria-Hungary,[1] producing all types of equipment, from airplanes and munitions to automotive engines, bicycles Csepel bicycle and cars. ‘ Not got much else to support it, apart from it fits and I’ve not found anything else that does. & I have tried! All thoughts welcome as always 👍 Need some Zzz’s. cheers tony 🍻

Hi BalkanCollector, I’ve just checked, DLE hasn’t been back on since your reply, hopefully will soon though - fingers crossed, I’ll give you a nudge if/when..,, tony 🍻

Dear No one, that was me I believe 🤷‍♂️ Earlier It somehow added your pics to my post when I did my edit, I certainly hadn’t, so I removed them from my image list… I haven’t got a clue how it could affect yours, I didn’t see it had at the time, but seems now it did. tony

Hi Gents, I’ve dug out my little collection at last.., Sadly not as many as I once had, other ones I had in wooden boxes were an easy way to raise funds when in a hurry.., I’ve had mixed results looking for stamps/marks, maybe you can see more than I do 😊 Either way I’m going to add pictures of them all as they are each nice things. Putting them in 3 groups.., 2 boxed orders Nothing added 4 medals from 1910’s Unsure if tool marks or worn marks 3 Red Cross medals 2 have clear marks, 1 unsure Order of the Rising Sun 7th and 8th classes 1914-15 War medal. 1914-20 War medal 1915 Enthronement Medal. Together. ww1 Allied Victory Medal. Red Cross Medal. Life Member Medal. Medal. Together. Tony 🍻

I Want It!! Hi Tom, thanks for showing us your example 🍻 As you probably realise that one is not on our list… yet 😊 So I now know what I’ll be looking for tonight… fingers crossed I’ll get an id for it, I’ll keep you posted. cheers tony 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Thanks for the interest, don’t go anywhere, I’ll be back asap !! 🍻

Playing up 🫤

Threads playing up, I hope i don’t have to write that again 🤞

Hi Tracy, just a thought re photos. I had a problem showing makers marks in pictures, I would zoom in on the details on the picture itself afterwards. It then occurred to zoom in on the marks first, then take the photo…you may already do this but I had never thought to. It was a game changer for details. tony 🍻 PS I’ve got one of these, I’m been meaning to for ages but now definitely I’m digging mine out tonight… 👍

Hi Dana, I’ve shared your post in another section where hopefully someone might be able to help… fingers crossed, tony 🤞

Hi Gents, can anyone help this member with the interpretation of an award certificate for a Kara-George Cross issued shortly after ww1 to a British soldier. I’m sure any help with her difficult family research would be greatly appreciated. Cheers tony 🍻

Hi Gents, a few more in a similar style… and the reverse for this one and below is one with, in my opinion, a suspiciously female looking soldier… cheers tony 🍻 Thank you Tracy 🍻🍻

I thought the sniper tool was a cheat 🫤 You are surely right, if it’s legit then I’m sure my defence tactic makes no difference, after all EBay wants the maximum price 👍

Yes, hard to miss copy in the description. A legit old tailors copy of a VC makes sense, it’s that or nothing but i guess not these above. Mainly my thing is Austro Hungarian, I don’t know enough to buy pricier awards. So I’ve lots of AH awards but 95% are basic ones, like my KTK’s 👇 My only medal worth over £200 was a private deal and I asked learned Gents to check it out first. I can often see that an item is bad but I still cannot confidently say an item is good, tony 🍻 Sorry to babble on but last thing.., If bid is 40 and I’m bidding 100, I put lots of extra bids in, eg 50,62,70, 81 92 then 100… I don’t know if it really works but I heard it triggers the sniper bids so why not 🤷‍♂️

Thanks Lucasz , it didn’t occur to me to check the order of wear for those, it makes sense for the bravery award to be first now you say it. tony 🍻

Hi Gents, is anyone able to explain to me how this Vienna address from post ww1 worked please? I can’t understand the meaning of the address style ifor Strudlhofgasse, Wien 9. There is Wien 9, which I understand is the District. Then Strudlhofgasse, which I understand is the street/road, I found that on a map but I don’t understand if it is one large building, separate commercial premises and houses or blocks of flats/apartment buildings? Is it the same now as it was in the 1930’s? I have an a first address Strudlhofgasse 14/11 Is that for building 14 /apartment 11 And I have another Strudlhofgasse 14/14 is that in the same building? Any information at all about the place would be greatly appreciated Gents… thanks tony 🍻

Hi Gents, Theme for today is… ’Treue Liebe’ Same lady… cheers tony 🍻

Yes that’s it 👍. Afterwards It did occur to me that maybe the Brit medals were first as a Brit would have to wear them.. and maybe a Pole in the exile forces should have also 🤷‍♂️ However prioritising the 3 Polish awards, I’m pretty sure, is the way any Pole would have worn it. Maybe someone else on here can confirm whether or not Brits were even eligible for all those 3. 🍻 It’s a nice thing and not a common combination I would imagine. cheers tony

Hi Gents, i was wondering what you think the reason is for the desire to buys these, let alone the price. Is it a lack of genuine articles for sale so ‘something’ better than nothing? or someone like me who wouldn’t know the item is dodgey and thinks the price is good? One seller I watched in the past always used the same ‘sock’ accounts to boost the bidding, often cancelling their highest bid if they pushed it up too far. It only took one sucker to fall for the fake to allow them to push the price up. Of course EBay didn’t care to stop it. cheers tony🍻

Hi No one, As you’ve noticed, the order of wear for the British ones should be 👇 I reckon at first… #1. Awarded in the field in 1944 and always placed 1st & then #4. added, worn next on top row. with #7. & #6. & #5. as the second row. When #2&#3 were added later… #4. was dropped down to the second row and the second row was accidentally flipped/messed up. To me the way it was worn was picture A, 3 over 4, with the seam being the one above the left breast pocket. tony 🍻

Hi Ian, me again 😊 I need to start with a disclaimer 🤷‍♂️ If there’s one thing I learnt the hard way it is just because something you see a picture of, matches the thing you have… it doesn’t mean that there aren’t a dozen other things that match it too. Traditions, imagery & styles of system, uniform and more have long been adopted, mimicked, inherited etc throughout the world… particularly those started by us Brits 🇬🇧 The devil is in the detail. Having said that… I’m now even more convinced the uniform being worn is a US Navy uniform. I can’t find anything that matches the collar lace of your guy, in particular the extra middle piece, that is except for that of an 1800’s USN Captain. The ‘lace’ strip in the middle is the detail I’ve focused on. Officers of many navies have the collar bordered but not that one in the middle… So eventually I focused on confirming that USN link and found this 👇 site with the most excellent & extensive details. https://asvab-prep.com/pictorial-history-of-us-navy-uniforms-need-to-know/ You will need to go through it yourself. It will be worth it. Many of the subtle differences involve cuff stripes, trousers lace, number of buttons or width of lace..,that type of thing, which will be impossible to compare as they are not evident in your portrait. However… it seems navy surgeons wore equivalent uniforms to the regular officers which gave me the encouragement to keep reading through it. & then I saw this connection and that lead to lots of things like this 👇 So it turns out there is a significance to this 👇 that i overlooked 🤷‍♂️ So I refer back to my initial disclaimer.., ‘Just because this matches, it does not mean that nothing else matches too…’ But I reckon there is the start of the answer. Cheers tony 🍻

Hi Gents, I thought this was worth a mention. 2 weeks ago I followed some link or other and it took me to the ‘MyHeritage’ site. The information was behind the pay wall. I decided to sign up for the 14 day free trial after which, unless cancelled, I would be charged £79 up front for a years access… I didn’t fancy paying that and today, on day 13 I cancelled my free trial. I then got a further discount offered.., which I accepted. - Price reduced to £32.70 , for first year. - About 60p a week, to me, is worth paying… So Gents, I just wanted to share this. If like me 33 quid is a price you can accept, try doing the above. If you are going to sign up with them anyway then try this to see if you can get this same offer. If you are already signed up and paying full whack ££ then say you want a discount or you’re off & start a new account.(if you don’t have stuff stored) You get the gist anyway… Lastly, I’m happy to have a look on there for established Gents that need something they can ‘see’ is there but is behind the pay well. cheers tony 🍻

I saw a ww1 trio on eBay, a really poor looking listing, starting price £60, the main pic was just one of the medals and it wasn’t clear it was for 3. In the description he said they were his Grandfathers… I was the only bidder with not long to go. So he was not sure to get much more. I messaged him. I said cancel it and keep them. Said, like you do, he’ll regret it one day. He was young and wasn’t convinced. Turns out his Grandmother was still alive which made his attitude even more disappointing. I said ‘at least if you’re going to sell them you should get a decent price’ I suggested new listing, better pictures etc, include a photo or 2 preferably in uniform and/or some ‘junk’ from his drawer or odd things to bulk it & to try and ‘personalise’ the medals. He cancelled the listing to do that. A week later he messaged & told me he was keeping them. Happily after talking to his GMother and seeing some photos of his GFather in uniform he found that connection that had been missing at first. There aren’t too many things I’ve done that I feel made a real difference but I will remember that one for a while. cheers tony 🍻