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Hi Chris, there is no name. 30 years ago I bought a set of several uniform parts, WW I and WW II. For example 3 pairs of Generals collar tabs, two in red (different size), this pair in "feldgrau", one shoulder board of a Colonel (Grenadier-Regiment „König Friedrich Wilhelm I.“ (2. Ostpreußisches) Nr. 3) and shoulder boards and collar tabs of a Colonel WW II. Uwe

Hi, you mean such a (used) pair? Uwe

Herrn Louis Becker, Göttingen Hierdurch erfülle ich die traurige Pflicht, Ihnen von dem Heldentod Ihres Sohnes Heinrich Mitteilung zu machen. In den schweren Kämpfen am 17.9.18 bei Sancy hat er infolge Artillerie-Volltreffers sein Leben seinem Vaterlande opfern müssen. Leider war es trotz wiederholter Bemühungen nicht möglich seine Leiche zu bergen, da das Gefechtsfeld aus taktischen Gründen dem Feinde überlassen werden mußte. Die Kompanie betrauert aufrichtig den Verlust dieses tapferen Soldaten und guten Kameraden und wird sein Andenken stets in Ehren halten. Der Herr möge Ihnen in Ihrem Schmerz beistehen. Schl...g Feldwebel

Hi, the cross is a civilian marching/walking decoration for two participations, may be Belgium. Uwe

Hi, it was often only one sign, sometimes with a timetable frame. http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4027/4223335690_0d43a39344_o.jpg http://www.google.de/imgres?start=384&um=1&hl=de&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&biw=1920&bih=878&tbm=isch&tbnid=d5ZCu31znkjXFM:&imgrefurl=http://www.berliner-verkehrsseiten.de/bus/Linien/E-Grenz/body_e-grenz.html&docid=WZmAi7US-b2UvM&imgurl=http://www.berliner-verkehrsseiten.de/bus/Linien/E-Grenz/Bus_E_Wannsee_Drewitz_1972.jpg&w=566&h=375&ei=A3TUUMeZAoXMswa3pIFY&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=646&vpy=219&dur=4250&hovh=183&hovw=276&tx=147&ty=85&sig=105772289502682058748&page=7&tbnh=138&tbnw=213&ndsp=58&ved=1t:429,r:27,s:400,i:85 http://www.bus-bild.de/name/einzelbild/number/66395/kategorie/Deutschland~Bushaltestellen~Alle+Regionen.html http://www.akpool.de/ansichtskarten/67139-ansichtskarte-postkarte-stendal-bahnhof-reichsbahnhof-bushaltestelle Search for "Bushaltestelle Bahnhof": http://stummiforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=55009&start=25 Look for "Haltestellenschild: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnbus_%28Deutschland%29 It is not a great difference between 1930 and 1956. Uwe

Hi, it is the Kyffhäuser monument: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Kyffh%C3%A4userdenkmal_um_1900.jpg Uwe

Glass yes Eugen no, it is more like Engel Uwe

Post 108: Usener Post 109: von Pfeil Post 111: Scheibengruber Post 112: Modrow Post 113: Brinck Post 114: von Hornhardt Post 115: Doerstling without guarantee Uwe

Hi, Sonderburg is a small Danish town, between 1864 and 1920 it was a German town. It should be a cross of a veterans organization or a shooting association in the German period. Uwe

Hi, please see here the old cloth insignias: http://www.france-ph.../palmesbrod.htm Uwe

And Steinhauer & Lück offered and sold them? What is the primary source for that? For me it is more logical, that S&L produced it (see the picture in the catalogue), and Ernst Schneider (and others?) sold it. Uwe

Hi, it is the early time of the inflation in Germany, see the listing in the middle: http://de.wikipedia....n_1914_bis_1923 Uwe

Hi Demir, this is very difficult! One must be a lawyer, to understand it complete. I'm not a lawyer! There are different protected areas, for example: - Patentschutz > patent protection - Gebrauchsmusterschutz > utility model - Geschmacksmusterschutz > "aesthetic model" - Markenschutz > Trade Mark TM - Copyright The best known term for this era is DRGM or D.R.G.M. (Deutsches Reichs-Gebrauchs-Muster). You can find it e.g. on sports badges. But it is not correct, because it is not a protected "Gebrauchsmuster", it is a protected "Geschmacksmuster". On early sports badges we can find first "Ges. Geschützt 33918", next "M. Sch. No 33918" (M. Sch. = Musterschutz) and later "D.R.G.M. 33918" After reading several German and English articles I think and believe, that "Ges. Gesch." had been used not only for patents, but also for utility models, aesthetic models and Trade Marks. Always for "completed" protection rights. When we take this link, Post 23: http://gmic.co.uk/in...nk/page__st__20 we can see a utility model protection (needle) and an aesthetic model protection (badge). You questions: A: I think since the end of the 19th century, as Gesetzlich Geschützt, Ges. Geschützt, Ges. Gesch. or in other way. B: For a patent and for Gebrauchsmuster you must ask the "Patentamt", for Geschmacksmuster you must search in in special Geschmacksmusterregistern. C: See the text before. D: I think, that they copied the badge and used normal marketable needles. E: Yes! Uwe

Hi, "My understanding is that it is "patent pending"" No, that is DRPa > Deutsches Reichspatent angemeldet > a patent that is yet not applied Ges. Gesch. means, that the patent is complete registered Uwe

Georg, when I write 1956, I mean 1956. The price list came with the original envelope, stamp date 18.1.57 > 18. January 1957. The German law with all the regulations and the allowance to wear decorations of the Third Reich, several of the decorations only in a denazified version (now called 1957er), is later, from 26. Juli 1957. This price list is definitely from 1956, and there had been offered all the decorations with the handwritten note "Originale wie verliehen!" > original pieces as awarded! It was a hint for the customers: Hi all, this is my last price list with all the pieces with swastika! I don't have the price list No. 8, but I have the price list No. 11 from 1963, and there is no longer offered a decoration with a swastika (officially!). Up to the law from 1957 only Souval had some denazified pieces, for example the Iron Cross without the swastika and no other sign, complete blank on the obverse. But many other dealers offered all the pieces with the swastika on the decorations, e.g. in 1952 Fahnen-Fleck, Erich Beinhorn, Die Ordenssammlung (Dr. Klietmann), Steinhauer & Lück, Rüstkammer Assmannshausen, Souval and others. Uwe

Ges. Gesch. is in my knowledge for patented items > protected by law It is a "reference to the existence of patent protection for the accordingly marked product" This special form of a needle is protected by law. Only the needle, and not the badge. Uwe

http://de.wikipedia....iki/Weißbinder Not so special, but in English: http://en.wikipedia....er_(profession) Uwe

Hi Georg, "Especially Steinhauer & Lück, Souval and also others produced many pieces post-war." - yes, but without swastikas." Once again, who told you that? This is a small part of a price list from Friedrich Sedlatzek from 1956 (price list No. 7 !!), where you could order all what you want, with swastikas. Uwe

Hi Georg, "... but in post-war years it was impossible" Who told you that? Especially Steinhauer & Lück, Souval and also others produced many pieces post-war. Uwe