Tom Y

To get the ball rolling,

Illegible (see scan)

01 on eye

C(?)W

2X CDCD800-3 one on buttonhole bow

CN

+M+

D(?)

dot in circle

2X Fr

2X G

3X H

HBN

JWS

K

3X KAG

KO(large stamp)

3X KO(small stamp)

L

2X LV

LW

M

MEH-3(magnetic frame, one with overstamp of core)

n

2X O

5X R

RW

s

S

Silber

Square

SW

6X S-W

Unmarked, magnetic frame, "teat"

Unmarked, brass frame

Unmarked, 1 piece brass

Unmarked, sheet steel blued core

21X Unmarked

2X V

W&S

WA

WHW

4X WILM

2X WMS

2X WS

WS on eye

3

7

2X 800

yours buckle is a good match to some apparently from a small hoard that werte on the market a few years ago, some still wrapped in oiled paper. I'd give it a big thumbs up. Definitely worth the price

And finally, a better view of the front. From the lack of markings we can assume this is private purchase, so there may be some slight differences. I seem to remember that the Bavarian Mantel has 2 buttons on the back belt and a different number, either 3 or 5, in the vent. There are 16 more views in the zip if you can get it to open.

Vent. 4 buttons total

Back belt

Right side

Left side

Front hook

Lining

Pocket

Arm hole

Cuff inside

Cuff

Collar hooks

Collar back

Collar left

Collar front

Butzbach or B?tzbach, both spellings seem to go.

Tom... can you post your pics here? I have spent about half an hour and still cannot open the fkng things :-(

OK. you asked for it.

Reverse.

My pin type Spange. With all the brouhaha lately I'm glad to see the same type crescent. Obverse.

I can NOT believe that NOBODY noticed Frieherr von Lupin's hideously wrong painted medal bar after all the posts I've made on spotting impossible bars!!!!!!    ------>

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2515...indpost&p=20771

Where did I put those wet noodles? 

Now as to the civilized relative merits of earning a PLM versus an EK2... am awaiting the British version of events which exterminated the entire regiment BUT for my "favorite" EK2 recipient and a handful of others... and yet got Freiherr von Watter dozens of miles away HIS Pour le Merite.

But that shall have to wait until after book arrives and my Epic Prose is ready, complete with plentious supporting illustrative scans for the Mini Series.   

And let's not even get INTO the absurd over-decoration of fighter pilots compared to the entire field army!   

Now for a Rough N Tough Dude who looked like HE lurked in trenches----

Siegfried von la Chevallerie in 1918 before getting his Oakleaves to HIS Pour le Merite. Certainly dressed like the Jim Bowie of the Prussian Army! 

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Enlisted man's belt, glove leather Luger holster, and hunting short sword sidearm!

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Certainly dressed like the Jim Bowie of the Prussian Army! ohmy.gif

Or the Patton. Non-standard uniform seems to be the norm for -eccentric?- cavalry generals. Geordie Custer was another one.

Lt. von der Linde, fifth winner of WWI and the first below the rank of General. At age 22 he and 4 volunteers captured Ft. Malonne.

      Is that all spun out in one piece, Tom?    How did they DO that???? What a little jewel!!! 

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It's actually 2 pieces, probably press molded, and slipped together ( joined with liquid porcelain before firing) It was probably first fired at high temperature, painted, and refired at a much lower temp, as red is a low-fire pigment. It's quite large, over 1 1/4 in. wide, and was probably hard to get into a buttonhole, but couldn't possibly fall out as the shank of the Knopf is buttonhole width.

Speaking of enamel, here's my favorite. a '66-'70/'71 one piece from Kaiserlich Porzellan.

If price is any indication the noncombattant is the rarest of the 4. Nimmergut puts it at 3 times the price of the others. From my own experience the K?niggratz seems to be the easiest to find for some reason, and I've never seena a noncombattant.