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I was thinking osme form of motor transport but I'm not sure.

Klumpp is wearing a tunic similar to this one. His straps look rather flat.

I guess the biggest problem is I may have written Geissel when is should be Gie?el.

No, I've just checked Hptm. Geissel and can not find him with HOH3X but a Hptm. Gie?el with HOH3X.

Best regards, Mike

Thanks Mike.... :cheers:

Maybe he removed the KO4 and replace it with the HOH3X in 1917.

Mike, do you have someone in mind????

Unfortunately I cannot tell. I looked for it and I found one on eBay right now. Maybe you could ask the seller all these questions.

This is stated in the book description and appears in the photos posted by the seller.

Looks great but it's EXPENSIVE!!!

OOOH,

I like that one but you only need one. Can I have the other? :o

Here's a very interesting, to me, ribbon bar ID'd to Hauptmann Geissel from Pionner Bat. Nr. 4.

Nice Anhalt ribbon bar.

Could Todor Petrov's book "Bulgarian orders and medals" be the reference you are looking for? It appears quite often on eBay.

Does it give the order of precedence for wear? There are so many grades of each decorations but I'm not sure if a bravery order is alway ahead of all others. Did the St Alexander alway take precedence over all merit medals no matter the class?

Is the Petrov book in english?

Monarchy

Something a bit different for me and a bit of a challenge, Hungarian Ambassador Eugen Ratz, My thanks to Hunyadi and Rick Research who gave me some good pointers as to uniform and medal bar details

regards

Alex K

Alex,

You have become a Master of colorization

I do mostly Hungarian photos since i know that kind of uniforms best.

Here a photo from 1944 of General vit?z Ferenc Kisbarnaki.

Great job Peter

Here is some of my Saxony ribbon bars to show. Please post yours!

Here are mine.

Could not agree more wholeheartedly with that!

Todays awards really don't seem to be taken seriously by governments and the people they commision to design them. I think the materials used in the manufacture are often times a huge problemas well.

The picture shows indeed a knight 1st class!!!!!!

very impressive... very.

Super medal bar and terrific photo

I'm amazed... wish I capable of such things...

Rick, you amaze me...

What will we do when you are gone? What are you 200, 300 years old... :cheeky:

Oh, there are a number of other pictures, though you can't really get a closeup. This one I think is on the occasion of his promotion to Generaloberst:

I wonder if he could get all the medals on one bar1

The first Mystery Ribbon is the 1900-1901 China Medal-- yellow center with white edged red-white-black outer stripes.

The last three ribbons after his two Wehrmacht long services appear to be his Prussian CrownOrder 4th Class (pale blue), an extremely naughty totally non-regulation wearing of his old Prussian XXV Years Service Cross--which had been replaced by the Wehrmacht awards--and the 1897 Wilhelm I Centenary Medal (yellow).

I've never seen him with this combination before. He quite often wore "Prussian only" awards--leaving off all his many other pre-WW1 and WW1 awards. But I've never seen him done up with illegal Triple Long Services.

I've never seen a photo of him wearing his full ribbon bar o medal bar...

Bulgarian saber knot

Nice, is it marked?

Does anyone have a source for order of precedence for Bulgarian orders and decorations?

A very attrative eagle done in dark red

What is the dark red piping for?

Nothing can be known, unfortunately. No story, no name. But spoke about this model with some local gurus and it is in fact even more rare than I thought at first

Theodor, that a right nice tunic you have. I'll bet that unit was very smartly dressed for field duty.

What else have you???

Nice tunic Charles!

I have a Bulgarian cavalry saber knot that I can post when I find it.

Thanks, that would be nice to see.

Does anyone have a cav tunic to share?

Well,

I have two or three (?) Bulgarian caps that I assume to be infantry but have read that they may be suitable for Artillery as well.

These caps are field caps with green/brown bands instead of red or black.

Is this correct?

Here's an example.

I collect these because I've always have a facination with the French Foreign Legion. Not enough to join, but so much that I collect French uniforms and medals and read a bit from time to time.

learned something today.... SOUK. I'm going to remember that one

I'm perpetually confused on the clasps and have to refer to Hendrick's site often to date the clasp. This medal with it's clasp and the Maroc medal with it's clasp seem to overlap.