Tom Y

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.

Cheers Tom, any idea with that stamp?

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

I do have a question for all RAO experts on here...

It looks like there is some gold residue on the arms of the cross.

Did these crosses ever come gold gilded or colored in any fashion?

Ramon

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.

To all,

After looking through all my references during the week the only badge that I can find that comes even close to that described by Tom is a local New South Wales state Infantry Battalion badge. The pictures is posted below. It has been taken from Part 1 of the Cossum badge book. I have also inquired with those dealers and fellow collectors far more knowledgeable than I in Sydney to no avail.

I hope that this has helped if only to reduce the list of badge suspects.

Regards,

Rob

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.

I remember putting rounds in a vice and hitting the back when I was 7-8..

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. :(

All items ok. Only the RAO from pic 2 is a copy/fake.

Greetings Mike

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

Since when are bunkers wallpapered? The guy on the right looks like he just discovered some funny weed in his pipe!

Here's the M15 strap they are wearing.

Chip

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

Many thanks Tom is that a letter "Z" on the shoulder straps?

Kevin in Deva.

I read it as an "L".

There seems to be a Dresden connection too.

Interesting picture Tom,

can you scan the detail around the cabinet

above the chap on the right as you look at the picture?

Field equipment, belt & bottle?

Kevin in Deva.

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.

1917-

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.