Tom Y

The first bar I owned. The 12 yr LS doesn't belong, but I'm allergic to fylfots

Another wirh embossing and gold. The 5te Squadron goes home(?) in 166 days.

Let's see some of yours.

IR124 K?nig Wilhelm I. With embossing & gold. Don't know who the gentleman on the right is.

hands across the....border?

After our recent derailment of the Christmas thread to Feldpost I think maybe it's time to share some cards for the rest of the year.

The message is a little pessimistic on this one, but I like the graphics.

I posted this before on another thread, but might as well do it again. The Hesse-Kassel 14/15 KDM.

The last for now, this a an advertising card for Leibnitz cookies. What every soldier really wants for Christmas.

Dan Murphy

Ain't that the truth!

your red & black one

The last one for now.

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OK. Here are a few more.

Here's my favoriteChistmas Feldpost. Don't have it at hand at the moment to show the stamp. I've got a few more if anyone's interested.

Well, it's about time

Tom,

Is your cross 42mm or 44 across?

Les

To quote Detlev, "W: 43,31 mm H: 43.32 mm Weight: ...Let's keep this one secret. Don't wanna give the fakers too much help

micha-

this is one that deserves a spot in the collection

for many reasons, not the least of which is

that intriging back plate.

what ARE they going for on e-bay? elsewhere?

thanks,

joe

I paid 275 Euro for this one a while back.

Detlev had this on his site for several weeks, but I guess Dave and i were the only ones who noticed it.

Rick, while I was typing you were posting, I guess. Don't know if it will shed any light on yhe matter, but this is lightly pecilled in on the doc.

Thanks, guys. a.D. means retired, right? I've found a Staatminister von M?ller in Beilefeld with a leather factory. Definitely important to the war effort. Sounds like it might be the guy. Wonder how he screwed up. Married a showgirl? Ate with the wrong fork?

and a congratulatory telegram dated 2 months before the award date and 9 months before the issue of the doc

My German isn't good enough to read the telegram and the translation to Babelfishese (Babelfishian?) leaves a lot to be desired, so could someone translate, please?

not very common either. A doc for an EKII am wei?-schwartzen Bande for for Staatminister a.D von Moeller.

Looks like a Saxon mount. I've seen similar on veterans' pieces but never on an EK.

In 1821 Hesse-Kassel issued this to veterans of the Freedom War. Like its Prussian counterpart, it was struck from captured French cannon, and is so stated on the rim, thus setting a prcedent for the 1870-71 medal.

It was suspended from this ribbon, now long gone to dust.

not that it'll do any good, but I sent the toerag a rather nasty e-mail. At least it made me fel better.

I think it was Gordon, in another time and another place, who described a suitable punishment for him involving a length of garden hose and some barbed wire.

thanks Gents,

I am starting to really get into these early medalbars....

Just picked up a three place bar, with Konigsgratz cross Centar and 1870-71 medal...no bars tho...

And have picked up single medalbars for the 1870-71 Non combattants war medal,and combattants...

Cheers,

Paul

The slope is getting slipprier. 1870-71, then 66, 64, 48-49, and finally 13-15 Beware

Replace it on the bar, but keep the damaged one as an "anatomy lesson". If it weren't for this piece which, although much more easily reparable, I intend to keep as is, I wouldn't know that there were numbers scratched in the back of the core.