redcross

I've got a medal groups that may be researchable, the EK is a 3 piece with magnetic core, maker marked A on the ring. but from my point of view, the jewel is the Stadt Weinheim 12 year service medal engraved on the back Scholz August 1922-1934 so does anyone have any ideas on how to learn something about this man?? thanks

I was undder the impression that the laws down under would prevent an export license from being granted, so if it is in AU it will stay there

its only a guess, but it might be Albanian problem is there is little written about Imperial Albainian medals

OK, looks interesting, but wire transfers are going to cost about $12 each, and the impression I got from some German friends is that when they do them, they are either free, or about the cost of a 1st class stamp, is something like that possible for us in the USA? yes, I know $12 is better than what Wells Fargo wanted to charge, just want to be sure I'm not missing something thanks

while I would love to have a euro account and be able to wire money at low cost [the way it seems to work in europe] as far as I can tell banking laws in the USA seem to prevent that sort of thing although perhaps someone can explain how it can be done, legally

oops - make that 3 Bavarian RC medals starting from the EK, #4, 7, 9 - all Weimar period, thanks for the Saxon, Thuringia clarification learning about period geography has been difficult [but then I still have trouble with geography even in the USA where I've always lived here]

Brauneisreuther is a nice guy in a nice uniform that may be close but he is wearing 2 Bavarian RC awards of the Weimar period and the Bavarian awards are of higher class and indicate longer service than the Prussian RC 3rd class that comes further down the medal bar don't know what that tells us about him... but it is a great picture

I've got this Shoulder Board not my usual thing but it was advertised as American Red Cross which of course it is not.... it looks similar to German boards I've seen but I don't think it is German Red Cross, from the insignia I think its Medical corps but that's as much as I can figure can someone tell me the rest of the story? thanks

I can't say I like the weak dollar, not only do things cost me more, but those euro folks are not so happy to see my dollars as they once were - and finding euros to send them is rather difficult

I had dealings with at least 8 bulgarian dealers, they all sell on ebay, they all have feedback over 98% its rather what you are looking for each has his own special niche and with most dealers, what's important is to establish a relationship as the good stuff that was fairly common 3 years ago just isn't showing up as much but the good ones have want lists and email when something nice shows up

regarding the merit medal, besides the difference in cases isn't there also a difference in construction I have one, I imagine early version which uses hard enamel for all the color parts while later versions, hard enamel is only used for the red cross, and the blue and white circles are soft enamel, there is perhaps another version where it is all soft enamel

I'm not certain about era's the blood donor medals on the blue ribbons start I think in the 70's, the one some are saying may be on the wrong ribbon may go back to the 50's but I have seen it as I have shown if many times either some evil soul reribboned some loose medals or perhaps some actually came that way without information itis hardd to date medals would that I had the luxury of only buying cased medals [with original, not replacement cases] then you could use cases to help date but the best thing would be to have award certificates with the medals - many red cross societies have virutally no information about their obsolete awards oh, well, I guessss that give us something to do

Hungarian Red Cross merit I don't have much information on any of these medals and suffer as Hungarian is not a language I can read there are a bunch of badges I may post latter, but need to verify that they are all Hungarian, as some Bulgarian may have slipped in while the socialist period has nice medals I really do prefer the medals of the regency period those will make me drool hopefully some of you may shed more light on these

Hungarian Red Cross 100th Anniversary medal I think I also have a table medal for this but the cased medals don't fit in the display case

Hungarian Red Cross Blood Donors 30, 40, 60, 75 donations

Hungarian Red Cross Merit Medal Gold, Silver Bronze I have some of these for trading, PM if interested

Hungarian Red Cross Blood Donors Gold, Silver Bronze I have some of these for trading, PM if interested

nice example the keyboard shortcuts work with some fonts but not with all depends on what scheme the fonts are encoded in using the windows utility keyboard map will let you know the correct codes for your font I try to use Iso standard keyboard map ISO-8859-1 as some cannot handle UTF-8 well [esp win98 users]

no what I had in mind were - not necessarily all but ones I've had to know, & use - the the sharp S or double ss or ess-zett the tz the ch the ck the thorn the double f the st [sorry, no pictures] in printing they are not so much trouble but when written, it is possible to puzzle for some time as to what it might be

while it is a nice alphabet it does not include the special letters which anyone wanting to work with fractur will need to know

OK so its the "Kivalo Dolgozo" Excellent Workers Badge for the Red Cross and since I have the later case probably from the 1960's-70's thanks.

Here's a picture of something I know almost nothing about, perhaps some kind soul would enlighten me as to what it is, and about what era. thanks

if money had been no object I would have bought it, and it did sell for about half what I paid for a 1st class a few years back - this particular fantasy was said to be sold by Klietmann himself at an OMSA convention. As for Fantasies andd fakes.... I do fall victim to them from time to time so many Red Cross medals are simply not documented although this is less likely in the case of German awards;; and the german states during the weimar period had some awfully nice awards - if I had to specialize that would be the one I'd choose but they are showing up few and far between

I understand that the Daniel A Carrion Order is given by the Peruvian government for Medical Merit. I know that the 1st class is a star but I don't know how many classes it comes it - and I don't know what the ribbon looks like - would apprecite any help. thanks what is pictured is some other class not even certain its size, as it has not yet arrived.

many thanks the person selling this thing tried to make me feel like an idiot and then came up with a good story giving his offering irresistable provenance but as the saying goes, if its too good to be true, it probably is.... here's what was being offered, rather pretty I thought