paul wood

55 officer's badges were awarded for the Crimea to both Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels and additionally 16 to Naval recipients Paul

The ruler is Mohammed AH 1327=1909 in western calendar and Year 6 is 1914, more than likely a Great War souvenir from a British soldier stationed in Egypt during WWI. Paul

Spanish but not sure what. Paul

Goudsmit was the official court jeweller from the early 20th century. Paul

I remember him very well, turned up after we sold him with his First Afghan War medal. I read his poem "On Balaklava Heights" to the London Medal Club at a members own. Paul

I would date at around 1870, as Rome was not part of the Kingdom of Italy until then, in 1871 Domenico Cravanzola took over the firm, while the may have kept the Borani logo for a short period I doubt if it would have been more than a year or so. Paul

Thanks for your help Taz. Paul

Is it possible to attribute a Philippines Insurrection (army) No.6878. Thanks in advance Paul

Straightforward silver personal prize or award jeton from 1911, nicely hallmarked but doesn't give a great deal of information as to its reason for issue. Paul

Timo, SAC is not uncommon. Worth trying Audrey at Rhino Research she might be able to find out more information. Paul

I think this is a case of a typographic mistake, I suspect it refers to the IGS 1936-39, NWF 1936-37 clasp. Paul

Extremely nice bestowal document now all you need is the set to go with it. Paul

I can see more sense in that at least it had a cast Iron provenance. Paul

Whoops pasted more than intended, please ignore all prior to re the new Gazette.... Paul

964 posts Posted 10 April 2014 - 10:00 AM Paul Wood, on 10 Apr 2014 - 10:18 AM, said: ... the advanced search system which appears not to be there on the new version ... I would be interested to hear others experience of the site and if anyone has any tips for making it workable. Paul Re the New Gazette set up I reprint this from another forum, I hope you find this helpful The Advance Search is still there... but instead of having to put different search terms in different boxes (as in the old Advance Search page), one now uses the single "search box" provided... but employ the standard Boolean search terms: AND; NOT; " "; etc. For anyone who regularly uses it, I would suggest it's worthwhile spending the 2 min 44 sec required to watch their video explaining the new set-up. Paul

I was very moved when I heard the story about Diagne on BBC Radio 4 last week, certainly his courage was one of the few rays of light in the dreadful Rwanda genocide. A UN bravery medal named after him would certainly be a fitting memorial to an extraordinarily brave and compassionate man. Paul

I would agree it is most definitely a relatively modern reproduction. Paul

London Gazette 14th April 1944, GEORGE, James Francis, Overseer London Postal Region. Paul

It's the Bravery Medal with DEM TAPFERN on reverse very nice group. must have been close to 90 when he received the Hindenburg Cross Not a totally stupid asking price. Paul

Roughly the price of three Russian White eagle sets. Paul

I hate to think what YC's asking price is based on previous form. Paul

What ever it is it is certainly not Russian. Paul

They definitely all go together a nice documented group awarded to Anton Kranennikov or Kraschenikov, he appears to be either Lithuanian or Latvian (I can never remember which language is which but he has a bilingual ID card). A very nice find. Paul

Rues, he means the red enamel spiked bits, from what I remember the GC breast star is blue enamelled while the commander's is green Paul

I received this information some years ago from Michael Autengruber of Kuenker, "the lack of the green cross of the star is a special division of the order named “for general merit”, instituted in 1892. The insignia of this division, that consists in the four grades grand cross, commander with star, commander and knight 1st class, is a order’s cross without the rues between the cross arms, and the grand cross star is without the green arms. These insignia are quite rare to find compared to the normal ones, and with the stars there doesn’t exist the problems with fakes." Paul