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Bored? Did you say bored? DANG!! Keep em coming! Pure eye candy!

He received it for what he cheated on... Seems logical to lose it...

GORGEOUS!! OUTSTANDING WORK! Even the most stubborn conservative collectors proning "don't change anything on a relic" would have to admit your art work on these items is simply stunning! I've seen very crude and even clumsy attempts at using military/war relics as art or part of art, but you are the first that has managed to make me smile from ear to ear and keep repeating "brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!" You manage to retain the basic essence of the item and to devellop the idea by adding related accessories painted/drawn on vice having them by the main piece... I'm at a loss to find a proper description... "Single piece dioramas..." Marvelous!! Keep them coming! They are worth being put on show in a major gallery!

WOW! A well earned retirement indeed!

I read most citations to Canadians during the Afghanistan campaigns of the past 12 years... IMHO, at least 4 should've received VCs. The problem is our officers and senior NCOs know darn near nothing of our award system except the old and horrible "aim low or risk getting nothing" regulation that is an abobination!

Great work! Not an easy task to add detailing at that scale!

Not 30,000... More like 60,000...

Sweet!

Thank you Mervyn.

Lost my step father of 40+ years this morning following a battle with cancer. He'll be terribly missed...

Thanks! And yes, very poor ribbon...

Besides the obvious, can anybody give me some info on this medal? Obvisouly unofficial, a society medal? Mere souvenir?

Judging by the size of the ribbons, my humble guess would be post 1957, and the other WW1 awards such as the frontkampfer kreuz and potential long service awards would've been on a 2nd row. I still think it's a ribbon from the grand duchy of Hessen... http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=549&size=big&cat=

Excellent write up, matter of fact, I'm surprised she only received a bronze star...

You sure it isn't simply a War Merit Medal from the Grand Duchy of Hessen?

Well... At least it's an award for the arts... I'd rather see more of these than Legions of Honour such as bestowed to Celine Dion...

Beauty!

This general Badinski... Does he have an incredibly large head or is he wearing an EK2 on his RK ribbon?? I know this was a common practice in combat to prevent loss or theft of an RK, but for a posed official photo?

From what I gather on French Wiki, it's a civilian corps of engineers...

Well I'll be darned! Thanks for the link and info, I learned something new today.

Alex... The GeneralOberst at right... You sure about the colours on his collar ranks?

Here's the linked page from the Russian version http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4r-Verdienstorden_(Hessen)

You lost me at the acronyms... AAB1 & CHGL1

Simply click on the language link at the left of the Wiki page linked above for Russian language (русский), they're all there. Imperial Russian awards -Order of St. Anne's 4th class (1803) -Order of St. Vladimir 4th class with bow (1804) -Order of St. George 4th class (28.08.1804) -Golden Cross of Bazardzhik (1810) -Order of St. Anne 1st class (1810) -Golden Sword "for courage" with diamonds (1811) -Order of St. Anne 1st class with diamonds (1812) -Order of St. George 3rd cclass (10.03.1812) -Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1813) -Order of St. George 2nd class (23.02.1814) -Order of St. Vladimir 1st class (1818) -Order of St. Alexander Nevsky with diamonds (1826) -Golden Sword "for the capture of Varna" with diamonds (1828) -Order of St. Andrew (09/22/1829) -Order of St. Andrew with diamonds (30/08/1834) -Silver Medal "In memory of the War of 1812" -Insignia "For XXX years of irreproachable service" (1839) -Sword of the Order of St. Andrew (08/05/1855) Foreign awards -Order of the Red Eagle 1st class (Prussia) (1813) -Commander of the Order of the Grand Cross of the Sword (Sweden (1813)) -Military Knight of the Order of Maria Theresa (Austrian Empire) (1814) -Knights Cross of the Order of St. Stephen (Austrian Empire) (1816) -Order of St. Louis 1st class (France) (1818) -Order of the Bath (British Empire) (1818) -Royal Guelfic Order 1st class (Hannover) (1820) -Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus 1st cclass (Kingdom of Sardinia) (1834) -Order of the Black Eagle (Prussia) (1838) -Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen (Austrian Empire) (1840) -Order of Seraphim (Sweden (05.08.1842) -Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior (Greece) (1845) -Order of Glory with diamonds (Ottoman Empire) (1845) -Military Order of Merit 1st class (Hesse-Cassel)