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    Alex K

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    1. 12 hours ago, filfoster said:

      "...just wearing the decorations from straight ribbons, or do you actually mean the mounting method where the gongs are resting (and fixed) on a piece of the straight ribbon?"

       

      The major feature is the straight ribbon, vice the German method of a folded ribbon.  Whether the medals are fixed or not, isn't the feature I am concentrating on.  I suppose the field marshals' portraits (Wolseley and Roberts) show fixed medals on straight ribbons.

       

      I had not previously noticed that Edward VII's medals were not 'court mounted' (straight ribbons) but instead, on folded, Prussian style mounting.

      Once again, the folded german style was predominantly used by the royals based on their german ancestry, typically british decorations were worn on straight ribbons as evidenced by many images inckuding during queen Victoria's reign 

       

      Regards

    2. On 30/09/2021 at 18:46, filfoster said:

      OK, so now it's:

       

      1. Order of the Bath

      2. Order of the Star of India

      3. Order of St George and St. Michael

      4. Victorian Order

      5. Order of the Indian Empire

      6. Order of St. Vladimir

      7. Order of Dannebrog (silver merit cross)

      8. Order of the Redeemer

      9. Prussian Order of the Crown 3rd Class

      10. Austrian 'Marianerkreuz'

      11. Hessian Order of Philip the Magnanimous

      12. Saxe-Ernestine House Order

      13. 2nd Empire Medaille Militaire

      14. French Red Cross 1870-1871

      This about right (for the medal bar in question) i would say but as jimn said, different day, different set-up! 

    3. 30 minutes ago, JohanH said:

      Could the second medal be the russian Order of St George?

       

      Medal no. 8 (second from the right) is perhaps the Kriegsdenkmünze of 1813?

      The ribbon of the last medal looks Russian to me. It looks almost like the ribbon for the Turkish campaign.

      I would generally agree with this assesment

    4. 12 hours ago, jimn said:

      The Imperial version of the Medaille Militaire is certainly a very attractive decoration. I agree he wore the Imperial version. We need clearer pictures I am searching as well.  Eddie seems to have had many versions of his medal bar!!!  

      I saw a "short" one .worn as KIng  with only British awards.

      Bath/Star of India/St Michael and St George/Indian Empire/Victorian Order/1887 Jubilee with 1897 clasp/Volunteer Decoration/Imperial Service Order.  Court mounted British style. Which is the correct order of wear from 1904.

      Yes as king he tended to wear bars composed of mainly or exclusively british, his son King George v also wore bars with foreign (german) awards, but those also disappeared with the start of ww1 (understandibly i suppose) 

    5. 4 hours ago, jimn said:

      If his Medalile Militare is pre 1870 is it for a state visit of his mother to France in 1855 or 1868?

      I thought later but if it is attributed to him in the Royal Collection then I stand corrected...\

      This is a very interesting subject and because it is royalty we must not expect normal regulations will apply.

      Hi its definately his from the royal collection with attribution, no indication as to why he received it to my knowledge

    6. 1 hour ago, bolewts58 said:

      Alex

       

      Very nicely done. The Thais would certainly like those.

      Rama VI was more British than the British. I believe he went to Eton and some of his brothers went to Harrow. His orders and decorations along with those of Rama V and Rama IV are on display at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. They also had a whole rack of Imperial German and Russian Orders. The showcases fill a room.

      Hi thanks, yes I've seen some of the displays of uniforms etc (online)mainly British and Thai, would like to have seen the imperial German ones also

      Regards

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