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Hi Demir ERMAN, "1. Everybody is wondering about BB&Co, including myself, but since there is a big amount of BB&Co TWM, I think it must be a local company in Istanbul. It must have been operating during the Gallipoli war and closed afterwards because of the economic difficulties of the Independence War. 2. For Gallipoli there is only one official medal; TWM (Gallipoli Star) and it is the painted one. I don't think as some of my colleques are claiming that these painted ones have been given to the enlisted men and the emaille ones to the officers. No, everybody received the same and only official issue. The medal is shown below." Sorry, but I have my problems with this statement. I had the chance, to archive a great amount of absolute original decorations and documents of several German generals from a family. It is not only this: http://www.turkishmedals.net/decorations.htm No, my opinion is based on the pieces in the family treasure. Unfortunately there is no document, but I think it is the original decoration (marked BB&Co) with the original "case", a cardboard: Regards Uwe

Hi, 57pence is OK, but not as a 57er example. It is a repro, a simple copy. There is nothing to combine with the 1957 versions/decorations. Only these are 1957 decorations: http://www.ordensmuseum.de/Ordensjournal/O...16Jan0857er.pdf Regards Uwe

Hi, let us talk (write) about the "Haussohn". "I think it means he lives at home and the wife works" Definitely not! See page 1 (Post3): 4. Ob verheirathet: ./. (./. is the first entry 1891 = not married) Kinder: ./. (that is the first entry 1891 = no children) At that time, 2. Oktober 1891, he was 22 years old (born 19. September 1869), and he lived in the house of his parents. And as a "Haussohn" he was still under control of his parents/his father: http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Haussohn+u.+Haustochter "Haussohn u. Haustochter (Filius u. Filia familias), Kinder, welche noch unter v?terlicher Gewalt befindlich sind." He had to have the permission of his father to become a soldier! Regards Uwe

Hi, please see here: http://cgi.ebay.nl/Rosenthal-Kerzenhalter-...emZ140121648921 http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...bayphotohosting http://www.porzellanstrasse.de/Bodenmarken...en-T.496.0.html and especially here: http://www.hood.de/auction/32427335/2-wk-t...nn-haviland.htm You can find many other sources for "Johann Haviland Bavaria" Regards Uwe

Hi KDVR post WWII. Attached is a hanger (or more) for the year of shooting for the badge. Please see here for example: http://cgi.ebay.at/Abzeichen-DEUTSCHER-SCH...L080901173r7470 Regards Uwe

Hi, Eddie Grant, there are different versions, your medal is the last version, lacquered, the most common. And there are different colours for these medals: - for teacher in blue (1957 - 1963), in red (1964 - 1989), - for students in blue (1957 - 1972), in grey (1973 -1975), in green (1975 - 1989), - for pupils in blue (1957 - 1989) The medals were awarded with award documents from the "Gesellschaft f?r Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft" (GDSF or DSF), the document in a blue map with GDSF logo. Uwe

Hi Mike, Hans Burkhardt Regards Uwe

Nationale Front der DDR Badge of the "Mach-Mit-Bewegung" = "take part movement" It is for "neighbourly help". "Sch?ner unsere St?dte und Gemeinden" = more beauty for our towns and municipalities Uwe

Hi Paul, in Germany we had and have for Admin Officials (civil servant) a ranking system, divided in four groups: Einfacher Dienst = lower service Mittlerer Dienst = middle service Gehobener Dienst = upper service H?herer Dienst = higher service Please see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamter In the upper service you can see the Amtsrat (A 12), in the higher service you can see the Regierungsrat (A 13). Regards Uwe

Hi, it is not Pte, it Bte, brevet? = patented. S.G.D.G = Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement = patented without the guaranty of the government Please see here, LZT003: http://www.bullworks.net/cssales/lzt01.htm and here, the fourth picture: http://www.muesch-online.com/federzunge.html Regards Uwe

Hi Grant, it is from the "Gesellschaft f?r Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft" GDSF (DSF). German-Soviet Friendship Society Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Medaille (for pupils) in Bronze Regards Uwe

Hi AlecH, "Zum Andenken von deinen Kameradinnen Kleinglattbach 4.6.39" Kleinglattbach is a part of Vaihingen: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinglattbach Regards Uwe

Hi, could it be, that all these crosses here in this thread are not awarded crosses? These are awarded crosses, awarded to a high ranked General. Allways the same cross, only the center medaillon changes. See the ring, flat oval! Regards Uwe

Hi, Collectors should better accept, that there is not only one original medal, and, more important, that both types, laid back and upright "G", exist as original and as copy/fake. This is a picture with 6 different period pictures of the Memelland medal: top row, from left to right: Doehle 1942 Meyers Lexikon 1940 Doehle 1944 bottom row, from left to right: Schickle catologue 1940 von Hessenthal/Schreiber 1940 Deumer catalogue, period before 1945, no year specification For the originality it is not important, to look only on the "G" or the "M", see the period pictures above: Differences in the G, the M, the ?, the 9, the acorns and/ore in the oak. It is more important, wether it is a stamped/coined (gepr?gte) medal or a casted (gegossene) medal. Stamped medals are rather bright, casted medals are rather dark. Regards Uwe

Hi, it must be something like this, 75mm or 77mm, German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.5_cm_FK_16_nA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.7_cm_FK_16 Regards Uwe

Hi, always only old men ! This is my favorite: Regards Uwe

Hi Eduardo, "I understood that Elsenborn was in Liege province in Belgium. Why German stamp in 1910?" That is part of the French-Belgium-German history: Till 1795 the area was Luxemburgish. 1795 to 1814 the area was French. 1814 to 1920 the area was German. 1920 to 1940 the area was Belgium. 1940 to 1944 the area was annexed by the German. 1944 till present it is Belgium. The official language in this Belgium municipality is German! Regards Uwe

Hi, somebody has put an end to his activity: Mitgliedschaft beendet membership finished Uwe

Hi Sascha, danke, dass Du einem alten Mann auf die Spr?nge geholfen hast. Ich h?tte es eigentlich wissen m?ssen. Ja, das Alter Rick, you knock the stuffing out of me! Regards Uwe

Hi Rick. "But eCrap will NOT allow icky yucky swastikas to be shown... so that's OK." he does not show swastikas! "Criminal fraud? Eh, so what?" that is legal? That is the text to the Ordensspange in Post 2: 6er ordensspange eines offiziers. garantiertes orginalst?ck. versand gratis 5 bidders, actual bid 156 Euro, now 22 hours left. He receives the money and cannot dispatch the article, because he does not have the article. That is legal and not criminal? He just present some more upscale articles from the DDR and some more Ordensspangen. His offer encloses now 20 articles. Regards Uwe

Hi, please see here, No. 19: http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.ph...89&Lot=1189 I think, that the three ribbons are the ribbons of the three united lodges. Sascha, then one ribbon is absent there on your medal? Regards Uwe

Hi woodeye, I think, that it is an absolutely normal Bundeswehr (Heer) officers cap. Regards Uwe

Hi Kevin, the link doesn't work? Than please see here: http://www.oesta.at/OESTA/oesta_abzeichen.html and/or here: http://www.sitecenter.dk/corysan/duelighedstegnside2/ Regards Uwe

Hi Rick, we, both together, are actually unbeatable ! Kind Regards Uwe

Hi, these L/58 marked KVK crosses are definetely post WWII, in my opinion without any doubt. Regards Uwe