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