Peter Orincsay

nice regimental badge.

Do you know of any resources out there on these badges? There seem to have been hundreds of them.

Just a quick google gave me this information.

1.) B?hm-Ermolli

2.) B?hm-Ermolli

3.) B?hm-Ermolli

Ohh Man! That?s a thing of beauty!

What wound?t I give to get one of those!

Here?s the wedding photo of my great grandfather. He married just a week before the war broke out in 1914.

Sadly he dies the same day the war ended in 1918..

This is a photo taken on the Romanian front presumably in 1916. My great grandfather is the man under the red spot.

I would need some help to ID the two generals, one German and an Austro-Hungarian. The Austro-Hungarian general has a 1st class

Iron Cross on his left side.

At the same military fair i found this to my Austro-Hungarian 1861-Model officers sabre.

The black and yellow were the Austrian Hapsburg colours.

I wonder what the red/brown stains are on this piece? Maybe some old remains of some duelling?

(I'm sorry, but i was not sure of the correct English word for this sabre attachment.)

I was also lucky to get a WW1, Austro-Hungarian cap badge from the 68th K.u.K (Kaiser und K?nig, = Austro-Hungary) infantry regiment from Szolnok in Hungary.

The dealer at the Gothenburg military fair wasn?t sure what it was, and sold it to me for less then 2 Euro.

I received not long ago a nice Bocz?n, Order of Vit?z badge with beautifully preserved enamel.

I haven?t updated for a while, but i haven?t stopped collecting.

Here?s just some of the things i added to my collection of Hungarian and Austro-Hungarian militaria.

Some months ago I finally managed to get an original, mint-conditioned Hungarian "Kepi-style" offices hat.

The model was a remain from Austro-Hungarian times, but modified to the Horthy, Titular kingdom (1920-1944) format,

with the Hungarian national colours inside the crest in front.

It was worn like this by all officers from second lieutenant up to generals.

Lower ranked NCO?s used the brown hat, that I have displayed earlier inside this topic series.

Indeed. I am NOT sure, it has been so long since I've seen one... but the finish doesn't look like what I remember. I'd have said they were a dull gray or iron finish.

There are ever increasing numbers of fakes for Freikorps awards and things like this, so I would be VERY careful.

Well, i also thought that it looks "to good to be true" and as of now, the current auction price for this item is about 8 Euro.

I wonder what the estimated prices for a originals of this kind of awards would be?

P?ter

Does anyone know anything about this medal?

Its up for sale at a Swedish TRADERA auction.

http://www.tradera.com/EISERNE-DIVISION-47...uktion_90202116

I have never seen it before and would like to know more..

Greetings P?ter Nyitray

My latest work took me about a week to do. It was a restoration/colourization work. The person wanted help to restore a family photo.

I gave some colour to the photo of Swedish King Oscar II from Wikipedia.

The few German colourizations i made was requests from forum-members and friends.

Some photos that i did took some repair works before i could do the colours..

Here is a Austro-Hungarian soldier in a makeshift studio.

I do mostly Hungarian photos since i know that kind of uniforms best.

Here a photo from 1944 of General vit?z Ferenc Kisbarnaki.

I used to do this for fun and got quite good at it after a while..

I'm not sure if this picture came from this forum, or from another, but if I recall correctly it was colorized by a member from Norway.

Kaiser Wilhelm II in an Austrian uniform:

I did this colourization a year ago..

Im from Sweden by the way!

Greetings

P?ter Nyitray

I later got aware of the mistakes in the uniform colours and changed it to the correct one!

You have piles of 1959s? I "need" one of those now-- obviously can't have a 1969 "naked" without a 1959!

Hello!

Check out ?rp?d ?rembolt or Hungarian Militaria .

They might have the medal or at least have the connections to get it for you!

I have bought stuff from these sellers before and found them both fast and good!

Cheers

P?ter N.

That looks like the coat or arms of my town, Gothenburg (G?teborg).

G?teborg coat of arms

A detailed picture of the handle.

The Austro-Hungarian 1861-Model officers sabre was widely used during the double empire as well as the Horthy Titular kingdom.

Here?s my piece.

This also came in this week. A Combat leadership badge (Csapattiszti jelv?ny) with red colour fabric in the back of the badge, this marks the artillery branch.

A close-up photo of the green infantry collar with the brass metal officer stars.

My latest addition to my Hungarian collection. A lieutenant (F?hadnagy) tunic. The green infantry collar is a later type with brass metal officer stars.

The military Signum Laudis awarded during peace time. The green trifold band was reversed to red in 1939 when it was awarded during wartime. A civilian version was also awarded with a entire green trifold band as well.

OK, the kitten is cute, but what on earth is the guy doing with that great hunk of wood on top of the little table?

Hmm.. What you see on the photo is a model of the Stalin statue that was erected on the edge of V?rosliget (the city Park) in Budapest. The large monument stood 18 meters tall in total. The bronze statue stood eight meters high on a four meters high limestone base on top of a tribune eighteen meters wide. Stalin was portrayed as a speaker, standing tall and rigid with his right hand at his chest. The sides of the tribune were decorated with relief sculptures depicting the Hungarian people welcoming their leader. The Hungarian sculptor, S?ndor Mikus was chosen in a competition were 25 sculptors participated. The model that is displayed in the Museum of Military History is actually the model that was used in that competition.

The plans to erect a statue of Stalin was planed as early as 1949 but this statue was not finished until December of 1951. Lots of old Budapest statues, from before the war was recycled for making the bronze statue of Stalin.

(a collection of photos of the statue after the demolition)

http://www.fszek.hu/56/Tematikus_HTM_ek/Eg..._ek/Sztalin.htm