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As long as they aren't touching the glass you're safe.

An excellent beginning, your joining us and the Cross. Wagner & Sohn is one of my favorite makers. And with the box, too :jumping:

Hi, Brian, Try AbeBooks and do a search for author: Nimmergut, key word: orden. I just skimmed the site and they seem to have a good selection of his books at reasonable prices.

My guess would be WILM. Unfortunately, the makers didn't have us in mind when they stamped their Crosses :(

Toning can sometimes give silver a gold color. I imagine that's the case here.

My father Hermann Körbel Infantry Regiment no. 4, 11 Company With his Iron Cross Second Class and my Iron Cross I got from my father (6 years old) T. Körbel Congratulations. You are now at the top of the slippery slope :cheers:

It looks like a clip for a chatelaine. It clipped to a woman's belt and held keys, scissors, bodkins, and other ladies' items on chains. I don't know if they were still in use by WWI, but were standard home apparel in earlier generations.

No, that's not it. I got it at a coin shop in Cincinnati, along with my first 1914EK2 and Pickelhaube, both long gone, a half century ago, so I remember it fairly well, although I can't for the life of me remember what I had for lunch yesterday The roo was on all fours and the boomerang was definitely a clear plastic type material. I think there was a sunburst.

Yup. I my case it was a 50 cal, a piece of pipe, a hammer and a screwdriver. Luckily I was told, quite strenuously to "don't" before I succeeded in my task. Well, you can always reload them, although I imagine fresh Berdan primers would be hard to find.

First and foremost, TAKE THEM OUT OF THE CASE! Moisture in the air will make the paper stick to the glass and you'll never be able to remove them without severe damage. Archival Methods, or Atlantic Protective Pouches, to name two, have a large selection of products that might serve the purpose. if you want to display them on a wall, maybe the adhesive backed label holders would work. The rest could be kept in a binder of baseball card sized sleeves.

Considering the limitations of Civil War photography this shot would have been impossible. The exposure time would make the smoke from his cheroot either a dim blur or invisible. I don't think the cap eagle is kosher and he looks suspiciously like a bit actor from a 50's cowboys n'injuns movie.

In the interest of clarity and at the risk of being called a redneck or worse, the flag on the bandsman's dispatch case is the Southern Cross. The stars and Bars looks like this: Unfortunately, this and the noose are beginning to replace the Battle Flag in certain circles here in the US' dangly bit. :(

I agree. Never would that red chicken grace a real RAO, and the cypher is mushy.

This is cheating a bit, but I'm so chuffed I just had to post them. In today from Heiko and the other kind

He was so excited he put his belt on backwards

My contribution. Dunno what the second ribbon is, but maybe the closeups will help.

To get this back in the running here's a Badische bar that just arrived from Heiko as a home for a couple homeless medals. recto verso

Thanks, Chip. As I remember Jünger mentions wallpapered bunkers in Storm of Steel. If not there, I read it in some other firsthand account.

I read it as an "L". There seems to be a Dresden connection too.

No prob.

Maybe on the Eastern Front? Wherever, one of them's got some nice bedroom slippers. and some poor Poilu's kepi? This photo'd be good for a game of I Spy ;)

I just dug out this photo of two Luftschiffer(n?)in what seems to be a rather well appointed bunker.

For a bandsman his face looks like he's done a lot more than marching up and down the square. I like the contrast in expressions of these two.

This is the first 1813 Prinzen I've seen, so I can't give a valid opinion, but it doesn't compare favorably with the full sized one. Considering my feelings on his 1870 I think I'd pass.