Raz

It looks like a common reproduction that's sold by the likes of old
Morigi, etc

Here's a genuine example (#301) from Don Bible's page (https://donbible.wordpress.com/)
compared to your un numbered example plus a Morigi disc below it.

Look forward to seeing closeups, but sadly straight away that gestapo disc isn't good.

Lovely pieces, Rich, especially that mini.

Nice little trio you got there Matt!

The gold and silver grades have always eluded me, then again I think I have always
been way too picky about how good of condition they had to be in.

Great stuff, hope your research reveals more on Jassner and that you are also able to locate some of his original grouping.

Thanks for the background info on that plate, Erich.

would love to see the certificate Adlerhorst

For interest sakes, anyone come across one of these plates before?

"Erich Probst, Mit Hitler in Coburg" / Maker : "Hutschenreuther Selb Bavaria Germany"

http://www.auktionshaus-loesch.de/loeschweb_116/sites_116/auktionen_116/militaria_49/auktion49_varia2.html

Nice stuff Bryan.

Sorry no idea what that award is, no doubt someone reading this can hep us ID it.

Very nice Hugh!

Might be of interest, Brooke's great grandson is back in town and checking out his old family haunts:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...&sec=nation

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file...;sec=southneast

Here's a trip to the Kota Tinggi museum I did at the end of last year.

Usually museums out in this part of the world can be a bit hit and miss, but in this case

they have done a pretty good job.

The best part for me was on the 1st floor, it was a little section covering the rulers and

officials of Johor state, with all kinds of awards and artifacts on display.

Again this museum had a no photography policy so excuse the bad pics.

Not sure, but this could have been a Dato'ship award document?

Close up of above.

Close up of above

The first ever Chief minister of Johore and his unfirom.

great stuff Hugh!

I wonder if there are any major Malaysian based mints?

Fantastic collection Hugh!

We definitely need some close ups! :D

Keep us posted when these books come out.

Ps

sorry for no pics of mine showing up anymore on this post, my old webspace got

trashed, will have to sort out new space and get the pics back up.

A couple of pics of the Muar Parit Sulong road which saw heavy fighting.

Pics from Australian War Memorial (AWM) http://www.awm.gov.au

Today the road is very much wider, lined with palm oil plantations rather than rubber trees these days.

Unfortunately this memorial is also on the banks of the Muar river and floods during

monsoon time. Luckily today it wasn't that bad.

An interesting site to visit. A bit strange and surreal also, a Mickey mouse playground is located directly

opposite with clogged up stagnant black water monsoon drains nearby.

The information board in detail. The other half of the board was in Bahasa Malay.

The battle of Muar had cost the Australians dearly, 500 Australian and 400 Indians made it back to British lines, that's

out of more than 4500 that started the battle.

On 4th September 2007 the memorial was officially unveiled by the Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia.

It is located in the Parit Sulong community park near the bridge and beside the Muar river.

The memorial itself with an accompanying information board in the background.

"In remembrance of all those who fought, died and risked their lives at Muar, Bakri and Parit Sulong, January 1942."

22 January 1942

Outnumbered and running out of supplies and ammo the Australians had to make a hard decision and make a break for

it leaving behind the most seriously wounded.

The battle of Muar had been one of the most hard fought battles up to now on Malaya.

The Australians had shown what they were made of and gave the Japanese Imperial Guard a bloody nose. The Japanese

wouldn't forget this to the cost of those left behind.

This is the old public works department barracks nearby which is said to have been the building used to initially hold

the wounded POW's when the Japanese took control of the area.

Denied food and water and brutally abused during the day the wounded were piled in, one on top of the other.

The buildings are in a sorry state, the land they are on flood whenever the banks of the Muar river burst.

Late that fateful day the wounded prisoners, tied up together, were ordered out of the building.

Some were taken and beheaded, some beaten to death, some set alight with petrol, some thrown off the bridge still tied together,

the rest the Japanese machine gunned at dawn.

Those who had been machine gunned were then set alight and one witness account even claimed that after the incineration the

Japanese had also systematically run over the remains in a army trucks. All this in the vain attempt to cover up the crime.

A truly horrific chain of events.

Here are some pics I took of my visit to Muar at a place called Parit Sulong. No doubt a few of you

will have heard of Parit Sulong due to the horrific massacre of around 110 wounded Australian and 40 Indian soldiers

that took place there.

This is the modern bridge built in 1994 at Parit Sulong. The only memorial at this site up to this point had been a small

easily missed plaque erected by the 2/19 Bat AIF association.

Thanks James :-)

Thanks for that Carol.

Can anyone see any other errors?

Thanks for the comments guys.

Those were the only decorations they had on display today.

This was the only decoration I did see with major enamel problems.

They had other fantastic items in the other sections of the palace, daggers, samurai swords, stuffed tigers,

but there were too many museum staff around to risk a pic and possible erasure of my memory stick.

lastly...

The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George . I was glad to see this on display.