Tom Y

Or, to put it in a currency better known to us, WWI British War Medals (at current Delhi dealer prices):

Rs. 2373 = BWM 1.87

Rs. 5000 = BWM 2.50

What's that in '14 EKII's?

A shame he couldn't get backpay from "49 with interest.

For pencilled beneath his name is this:

"verschollen (fahnenfl?chtig)"

"disappeared (deserted)"

Trifold mounting was used occasionally in Bavaria and Saxony, more frequently in the 19th Century. This might have something to do with them being Austria's ally in the 1866 War and a subtle protest of Prussian supremacy.

Dunno a whole lot about the EKI's, but I'd say

Hi Chris,

I think its called japan paper, something like rice paper. Non acid.

Its applied with a conservertor glue and placed in a Vacuum frame to set up.

We can get stuff like that at several art stores in the states. Not sure if you can find the same in germany.

George

I've done it successfully with rice paper and a thin flour paste. no vacuum frame needed. For small repairs tear, don't cut the rice paper so it has a feather edge.

They don't appear to be the right shape for a Schutzenpreis.

I managed to snag a few when the didn't cost the earth, but they don't hang well on medal bars

I''ll still go after oddities like these, though.

He was still alive in 1935, working as a driver of a taxi or bus.

I doubt if the name John is too common in brunswick, or anywhere else in Germany for that matter. Maybe with a little lbit o'uck and a little help from my friends we can learn more about him

Almost 2 years later he received a Brunswick KVK

He served for 2 years as a Musketeer in an Lorraine IR, managing to stay out of trouble.

This group just arrived the other day. The EK doc is the largest mimeographed one I've ever seen. Approximately 11 in. long, issued somewhere on the Eastern Front?

Check AbeBooks.They don't have that particular title, but there seems to be a fair selection by other authors.

Looks like a Bavarian Kriegerbund pin. Maybe someone can post a scan of one.

You got the old woman spot on.

This one?

your article is the sleeve insignia for the BDM jacket. The items for the pennants and sports shirts are of a different size and construction.

Thanks, Bob

Here's a wartime issue one.

The wartime ones were blackened iron and had a concave back.Many of the later ones were painted brass with a flat back like yours..

Better but still small-ish. What the heck IS that? It looks like the Prussian luifesaving medal with silver swords-- is it a saxon Friedrich August with the sky blue gone white?

Told you it was an oddball

Tom: ribbon bar one is too small. God help me if I get into FULL sized medal ribbon devices!

Marcin & Christophe-- Perfect sized and you have complemented each other's Schwarzburg's very nicely.

Those are the size and type I wanted.

(Good thing with the Imtiaz too... I've got severela and haven't made scans of my OWN "Bar & Sabers" on that, so yours will do nicely!)

Take a look at it now. 600dpiX50% I guess HP uses a different scale than Epsom.

Well done

Never seen an eye like that before. Does it go through the teat on the frame?

Hope this oddball will help.

And how about this?

EKII, but you knew that.

Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Crown & Swords

VA 2nd Class. Dunno what this is

Fought in France, Rumania, & Russia

Was this guy Bavarian?

The amount of joy I am having looking at this would be illegal in any public places here in Europe and would probably get you arrested in certain states in the USA (even if in private).

Even in Amsterdam?