Colin Davie

Does anyone know if the rock Loreley in Germany is associated with U-Boats? I have had this tinnie a long time and always wondered, it is not easy to see in the scan, but seems like a U-Boat in the water with a ship sitting behind it. Cheers for any help. Colin

Hi, these 2 are not in my Tieste books, but I don't have the latest editions, were they included in the new editions? 1st is Prenzlau 1934 and 2nd Oldenburg 1934. If so, could you please give me the values as I'll probably sell them on. Cheers for any info. Colin

Certainly not cheap these books via Ebay... I'm hoping to pick them up in some small secondhand bookshop. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Australian-Army-Badges-JK-Cossum_W0QQitemZ330353367701QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_15?hash=item4cea985a95&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Colin

If referring "ttfn"... I always associate it as Tigger's way of saying goodbye in Winnie the Pooh ... you don't get to read reference books when you have young kids C

Sorry it took a while, too much to type out, so just scanned the whole article, with respect to the original writer Alec Purves, Medal News March 1991. C

Ask and ye shall receive... thanks for all the great info and help. Some of my badges now have a new sense of history, looking through some of the badges they are from 1933, and clearly part of that organised propaganda campaign against Jewish businesses. Thanks again, very much appreciated one and all. C

There are a number of badges with this written on, Braune Messe, any ideas anyone, the general meaning? A brown meeting/fair/gathering? Brown what? Shirts? I have such a daybadge with a ship named "Cap Polonio" atop a shield on which is written "Braune messe, Hamburg 1933", below which is a swastika. The ship looks like a large cruise ship and I know it ran between Hamburg and Buenos Aires at the time. Anyone think what the badge represented? C

Thanks for sharing Rick Anyone wondering why these guys were called "old fighters" should read these on-line translations of some of the pages of the same book. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/gimbel.htm C

GPB and bar reverse. C

Started at Weitzes' in 2002,

I recommended not buying the badge, everyone else can make their mind up if I was right, and we'll leave it there then. Cheers C

Edited because finally he admits he has bought a copy. And gary, don't tell me I can't give an opinion on a badge, I can and if I choose to I will, I never used the word fake.. please read my post again and see I only recommended not buying the badge, and BTW that post was'nt addressed to you personally, so funny you responded then.. Yes pity the thread can't just be locked as it was in the HJ forum, and finally after nearly a year you admit you might have made a mistake. C

I think your Croation badge is original as well, I never said anything different.. see you jump to conclusions... it's a rare badge, and I just wanted to see an example of this criteria of originality you think is so important in action, proof I knew you would be unable to provide.... and it is as I expected, you like it so it's good. Collectors digging a trench to defend a fake they've bought is nothing new, and I look forward to your sales discription (and price) on your red badge the same as that posted above by Warlord.. BTW, how is it Warlord gets to call your badge a fake and you say nothing? Consider the post above yours and your response (or lack thereof) You have'nt addressed a single post he's made, never asked him for a single scrap of "evidence", nothing... this is all about ego Gary, you just don't like the fact I argued against you on your HJ forum. C

Hi gary, I apologize for not answering before, I am looking for info on another badge I have just obtained (not HJ, but political) and just noticed this thread had been added to. Gary your tone is very brash, and I'm no shirking shiela, but frankly, I can't be bothered with it, so I will give my "evidence" and then that's it from me to you on this. I have NOT given any difinitive statement, perhaps you could point out in my post above where I have made such a "carved in stone" point? I told the guy what MY OPINION is of the badge shown and why I personaly would'nt buy it... if your opinion is different that's cool. Your rant about some US collector, veteran blah blah blah.... what planet are you on? What collector? Where are you getting this from? I got ONE of these badges from an original recipient he lived close to a family friend on mine in Norway, he was a skiing champion, all other of his items were burnt or otherwise disposed of by his mother, this badge survived because he had it on a civilian jacket he owned and she missed it... I was promised it when he died, he died, I got it, it had a brown border, it had no maker mark, it had a very distinctive pin plate, it matches the one in Detlev Nieman's book and the original ones Warlord is going on about. I had one other, bought from an English dealer, it matched the one above, but the silvering had mostly come off the eagle. You have your Aurich, one of the multi colour samples that showed up in the 70's (along with the multi colour HJ member pins)..... the long time dealers I spoke to told me they are copies, Warlord, a long time collector with IMO the best political collection on the planet does'nt like them and calls them copies, Manions sells them as copies. Of course we are all just conspiring wrongful evidence, because you have bought one and you believe it might be original.... did you obtain it from an original recipient? is it shown in Detlevs book, god knows he must have seen hundreds over the years.. why did'nt he ever sell one or obtain a photo? Manions the masters of bending reality, sell these as copies. In fact is there any other EVIDENCE on YOUR Aurich badge other than you like it? You don't believe it all?, I don't care. Your Aurich badge in my opinion is a copy as alluded to by Chris (Warlord) and everyone else above. You don't believe it? I don't care. Gary it is impossible to PROVE a badge is not original, all we can do is compare to known originals and make, I suppose an educated guess based on that comparitive study. I told you already.... if I went to my shed and made an original quality, pink enamelled NSDAP badge for female members, no-one could prove it was not original, sad thing is it would probably sell though.. to someone such as yourself...... given the evidence. All the best in your collecting Gary. C

I used to know a guy that sold fake women.. to the guys doing long stints on the oil rigs in Aberdeen, sure they were all virgins as well or those big oil workers would have taken him along for the ride instead (literally) C p.s. any multi-super moderator please feel free to cut my post and paste in on WAF :unsure:

The situation would have to have been very relaxed, apart from the gold the biggest drawback I would have though would be the multitude of very sharp tools needed to do this sort of work, not the sort of thing you give to a POW in the norm. Great items and very interesting to see. C

Of course you will also not be getting an item that is "as described"..... after all, going by the pics it looks like you have bid and won a nice 1957 version WW2 medal bar... but if you are about to recieve some nasty Nazi medal bar that will deeply offend you... refund in order. C

There is an interesting little book "Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977" by Lieut.Colonel Howard N. Cole and published by J.B.Hayward & Son. It deals with world medals, though as you might expect the British stuff gets a really good write up whilst the medals from other nations are more of a snippet. I thought it was an ok book, and would be a great collecting focus for someone. C

I think I read somewhere of an Englishman, holder of the VC no less, that was also awarded an EK2, I think the guy was a frontline surgeon and aided German soldiers at some point. I will try to find the reference. C

Little unofficial "C.N." engraved on the back at the bottom of the planet, nice personal touch. Cheers C

Here's my example of this medal, old and been there. C

I assume most of them were in prison for killing their tatooist? Stories of guys like these are great. C

The still looks like it's in Berlin? Maybe if you knew what was going on it might clarify who he was. Just thinking out loud, but then it's not loud because I'm typing it, hmmm ..Having a thought storm C

Not a "P" but a "9".... 19.2.35 Nice item. C