JohanH

Hello!

Does anyone recognize this medal? GGSD and the date 29-11-37 and a ship. The reverse is blank. 

I know that 1937 is after the Imperial era of Germany but it´s mounted after two other german minis, that´s why I put it here. But if anyone has an idea of a better category, let me know. 

The medals on the bar is the following:

Swedish knight of the order of Wasa
Swedish commemorative medal of the Swedish Brigade who fought in Finland 1918
Polonia Restituta 1918
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
Für Vaterland 1914
GGSD-medal

I guess it doesn´t exists any rolls for either Polonia Restitua or the red cross medal, right?
There is a tiny possibility I can ID the recipient using the roll for the Wasa order and Swedish rank lists. Since there is no order of the sword he was probably not a regular military person.
I also have copies of alot of documents from the archive from the Swedish Brigade that contains alot of names of members. With some luck there is some name there that also appears on the Wasa-roll and can point me in the right direction. 

And here is the full mini-bar. 

I´ve got another one!

Now I have four Lappi and four Kenttäarmeija in their original bags. 

I like them when they come in their original paper bag with the recipients name on...

I can´t seem to upload any more pictures for some reason so I´ll try again later/tomorrow to show some more pieces. 

In my first post in this thread I showed my favourite imperial German piece and also my all time favourite piece which is this finnish cross.

And since Destruction wanted to see the backside I made this post instead of making a new thread in the appropriate forum section. I´m lazy…

Here are some more medals from my collection. 

Bronze - Silver - Gold

The gold one is a gilt bronze medal. The original ones in gold were only awarded 7 times to royalties and heads of states. 

1 hour ago, Destruction said:

Hi Johan,

Can you show the reverse of your Ingria cross? Many thanx in advance!

Hello!

Here are both my crosses of Ingria, I still need the one for enlisted men.
If anyone should have one for sale, please let me know!

The merit cross is awarded 2 times and the cross for officers around 20 times.
I don´t know how many that were awarded the enlisted mens cross. 

1 hour ago, Colonel B said:

I am new to GMIC. What a wonderful collection. I would like to collect these as well. What are the 15 clasps?  What is the ranking in terms of rarity for the clasps?

 

 

Hello and welcome to the forum!

I suppose you have seen the list of all the different clasps in the other thread so I wont repeat it here. 

All the clasps are quite easy to find, atleast in Finland and to some extent also in Sweden. But the hardest one to find (in my opinion) is the Mantsinsaari clasp. 

Also the usual iron and bronze medals for foreigners are pretty easy to find. The iron one was awarded approximately 10 000 times and the bronze one 1961 times. 

The difficult thing is to find the foreigner medal documents, especially the special document for fallen soldiers. They are really rare. 

Tomorrow I can take some photos of the winter war medals that I have bought since the last photo. Among them is a prototype medal and some more medals for foreigners.

He received the grand cross of the Swedish North Star on 28th April 1955

Hello Micke. 

I was one of the bidders but unfortunately not the buyer of that set. 

10 hours ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

"Heinrich Sheuch was awarded the commander 2nd class of the Swedish order of the sword on 20 October 1912. " ... does anyone know the criteria for this award? I saw one awarded to a Bavarian NCO as well

All I can find in my books are the statues of 1902 and they don´t mention foreign recipients criteria at all.
Only that Commander 2nd class and knight 2nd class was only awarded to foreigners until 1889, after that they can be awarded to swedes too. 

Swedes could be awarded the order of the sword for things like long service, bravery in the field or service to the country. 
 

I am working on transcribing the award rolls for the Swedish orders from 1748 to 1974 and are almost done with commander 2nd class. My biggest issue is lack of time...

Heinrich Sheuch was awarded the commander 2nd class of the Swedish order of the sword on 20 October 1912.

What would you guess an unissued piece would sell for at an auction?

I believe it’s almost impossible to put a value on such a piece. 

But if I would guess I think it would go for over 30 000 € in an auction. But I guess it all depends on how much the bidders want it. 

Can we see a picture of it?

17 hours ago, ChristianUtti said:

Hello Everybody, 

Tell me what you think is worth Grand cross of Liberty cross 1918 with swords? 

Hello!

Are you buying or selling?

Is it a complete set? with cross? Breast star? Document?

Since only nine were manufactured and only four ever awarded so the price between issued and unissued is huge. 
As far as I know there is atleast one of the awarded crosses on the private market. Is yours issued or unissued?

Hello!

You should probably post this in the Spain forum instead of in northern europe.

Btw, I have nerver seen this variant before. 

Is it possible that it nice had enamel that has been removed by someone?

You´re right, it´s only thorn. First I thought that he was wearing some weird variation of the tank-destroyer badge since he´s standing next to the anti-tank rifle. But it didn´t look right.

The badge is white with a black tank on it (for those who didn´t know).

1 hour ago, BalkanCollector said:

Knight #23

Antti Väinö Sokka, awarded with the 2nd class on October 12, 1941

Is he wearing a badge on his arm or is it thorn by a bullet or something?

Interesting pictures btw!

Amazing work!

I would also like to have one on the wall. 

Perhaps this could be an interesting photo for a later project. 

Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden in uniform and with both medals and pickelhaube. 

45 minutes ago, Great Dane said:

Dannebrog Commander awarded 16. Nov. 1924.

Sword Commander awarded 1924.

He got the Sword commander 2nd class on 5 november 1924 to be precise.

Thank you for clearing out that mystery of mine!

That would mean that the one I have is a knight 1st class and not a 2nd class! 

Yes, the old award documents are gorgeous, but the recent ones are to boring! Unfortunately I don´t have any documents for these. Yet… 

My favourite piece with a connection to Germany is this medalbar.

But my favourite piece in all categories is this Finnish medal. 

The merit cross of the white wall of Ingria, only awarded twice (2 times!). 

This one was never awarded and is unfortunately damaged in the enamel. 

Here is my small collection of Order of the Holy Lamb from Finland. 

This is a church order which is awarded for long service to the Finnish church. It consists of seven classes, five orders and two medals. 
The number of awards are really low so it´s very difficult to find these for sale. 

Grand cross - 10 awarded
Commander 1st class - 26 awarded
Commander 2nd class - 23 awarded
Knight 1st class - 26 awarded
Knight 2nd class - 55 awarded
Medal 1st class - 73 awarded
Medal 2nd class - 34 awarded

The ones I have in my collection so far is commander 2nd class, knight 2nd class and both medals. 

Does anyone know what the difference is between the two knight classes?
I think the only difference between the commander classes is the breast star which goes with 1st class. 

If anyone know of any for sale, please let me know so I can try to complete my collection!

It is www.holmasto.fi

The auction takes place this saturday

Kapitänleutnant Carl Wilhelm von Haxthausen was awarded with the knight 1st class of the swedish order of the Sword on 26 june 1909.

If it is of interest with the correct date.