HeikoGrusdat

thanks Rick for the mini chain link but most of the minis have been sold meanwhile so they have not been stolen now........... but somewhere there must be a thread with many big medal bars, most of them are gone, maybe we will find it sooner or later.......... I just checked ebay worldwide, nothing yet

and of course the huge medal group with 2 big medal bars and 6 ribbon bars of Dr.Gerhard Sayffaerth which I purchased just two weeks ago has been stolen too.............. pictures are not too far away in this forum!!!

by the way.......... no photos or documents were stolen as I can see so far..... ...........and the battle clasp collection is still online

thank you again... we have a lot of scans somewhere in here, even of the "old style wonder" I have packed the remaining collection and put it to a safe place, but the real big guys are gone...... the "little things" that are stolen are ca. 100 bars with mostly China and Southwest on it, many with campaign clasps. Some medal bars with turkish medals on it, some with SEHO-medals with year-clasps on it and some "normal" medal bars........... most of the stolen things are pictured somewhere in these magic sites here.............

Thank you all guys for your warm words............... hope you can create a database with all scans in one thread, my home is a bit in chaos at the moment, I can`t find my secure copies on CD.... most of the big bars are in the Thies catalogues and most of my collection is somewhere in this forum - but not everything has been stolen. But if it helps show everything you can find !!! Thank you very much Rick and Rick and Chairman for your technical support, I will try to add new names to the stolen list when I find them (or better don`t find them.... ) Hauptmann Firnhaber medal bar Leutnant Paul Sievert ribbon bar Leutnant Heller ribbon bars Rick, who was the big ribbon bar we had the "ebay-fight" for some years ago, can`t remember the name.... some things of Oberst Kadelbach more later...................... only medal bars are missing, nothing else has been stolen, exept the laptop, but a lot of chaos............. keep my scans coming, your help is very welcome and it is a great gift to know all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello gentlemen and friends, today I have very sad news..... last night a huge part of my imperial medal bar collection has been stolen from my home while I have been on a concert!!! As you can imagine I am very dissapointed and very angry as well... I can`t say exactly how many bars are gone but I would say about 150 medal and ribbon bars are missing. I will give you the names of the most important and ID?d groups later, you will know most of them from the forum or from auction catalogues; some of you know more bars from my collection but I can`t list all now... if any of these appear somewhere on the market please ontact me immediately, the german state police (BKA) will get this case because it is a big robbery..... please help me however you can, maybe we can get something back... the most important medal groups are from: Karl Wedding Vize-Admiral, medal bar and ribbon bar Hans R?stow Generalleutnant der Artillerie, medal bar Auti Altvater Korvettenkapit?n, medal bar Robert Koehne General der Artillerie, medal bar Henning von Holtzendorff Grossadmiral, medal bar Friedrich Holtz Oberstleutnant der Artillerie, ribbon bar Paul K?nigs Hauptmann der Schutztruppe, 2 medal bars Ludwig von Mertens Generalmajor der Artillerie, medal bar Wilhelm Riese Oberkriegsgerichtsrat, medal bar and many many more ribbon bars, medal bars, miniature chains and so on.... the remaining part of my collection is now in a safe place and will be secured for eternity.... Unfortunately my database on the laptop is missing as well as the whole laptop is gone too.... that`s it for the moment, I have to get a scotch now.... thanks for all help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heiko

thank you very much, I have never seen this ukrainian award before!!! the medal bars show: (in german,sorry...) 1.Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse 1914 mit Wiederholungsspange 1939 2.Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1939 3.Kreuz für Kriegshilfsdienst 4.Bayern Militärverdienstorden 5.Hamburg Hanseatenkreuz 6.Frontkämpferehrenkreuz 7.Österreich Ehrenzeichen vom Roten Kreuz 2.Klasse mit Kriegsdekoration 8.Marianerkreuz 9.Österreich Ehrenmedaille vom Roten Kreuz mit Kriegsdekoration 10.Österreich Kriegsdenkmünze second bar: 1.Freikorps Schlesischer Adler 2.Klasse 2.Tirol Kriegsdenkmünze 3.25 Jahre Treue Dienste 4.Bayern Hochzeitsmedaille 1923 5.Ungarn Kriegsdenkmünze 6. Bulgarien 7.Bulgarien 8.Bulgarien Kriegsdenkmünze 9.Finnland Medaille zur Erinnerung an den Freiheitskrieg 10. Ukraine 11. Türkei RotKreuz Medaille on the ribbon bars are some more things like the Auszeichnung für Ostvölker, the Tamara or the portugese red cross order I think he was in 1944 in the Führerhauptquartier as a Major....

thank you all for your nice and warm words!!!! I will post scans of the award docs next week and then we have some more parts of the puzzle.... as you said, the Tammy and the other things are not with me but there are somebeautiful award docs for the Marianerkreuz and the other awards.... Thank you

so, here is the complete Sayffaert medal and ribbon bar family together re-united, looks good.....

and the third one....

and the second one.....

but......................did you now that these 2 parents have 3 children????? here is the first one:

both belonged to Gerhard Sayffaerth, now the two together, lot of stuff on them...

and the second one...

we talked about these bars some days ago... now they have a good new home - they are mine better pictures now, but the bars are too big for my scanner.... here is the first one.

both bars are sold now - I hope they come together in one collection and find a good new home....

he he... one thing I can tell you is that you can take Willi`s bar and I take the BMW... No, this bar is out of reach for me but maybe there are some more good bars on the "lower level", we should talk about that again when the catalogue is out...

Claudio, no I had no time for Gunzenhausen.... the bar came from a german collector. Are you saving money for december Thies auction right now...

Ok, thanks for the first and fast reply... then this is the edited list of possibilities: Bohle - Berater in Paris Bohn - Historien-Maler Elrienthausen - Leutnant Hettler - Eisenbahninspektor Hummel - Berater Kegele - B?rgermeister Cannstadt Leins - Lehrer/Professor

and the reverse....

Gentlemen, here is the latest addition to my collection... a nice W?rttemberg medal bar, maybe someone can help me with the ID of the owner. There are some names left and maybe we can take some more from the list now, or you have new names for me .... the possibilities are: Bohle - Berater in Paris Bohn - Historien-Maler Elrienthausen - Leutnant Engelhorn - Buchh?ndler Freytag - Major Herbort - Oberst Hettler - Eisenbahninspektor Hummel - Berater Kegele - B?rgermeister Cannstadt Leins - Lehrer/Professor every help is welcome, enjoy the bar. Heiko

very good price!!! The MEZ2 docs are much more rare than the DSWA-Denkm?nze docs.... I had a lot of good colonial document groups but all are sold now to a friend as I turned more to the medal bars... you can`t collect everything

yes it is a very interesting and rare group, I was very happy when I got it from Bob.... by the way, your table must have seen a lot of history yet

Rick is this the group you are talking about.... got it from Bob earlier this year, beautiful medal!!! Heiko

gentlemen, from time to time I go through my collection and pick something up which still has no name but where an ID seems to be possible.... today I have a very nice ribbon bar for you, maybe someone has an idea on it.... enjoy.