HeikoGrusdat

the battle clasps were made in many different sizes, different writing types, different prongs on the reverse... some examples:

That`s my world... here are the china medals, for combattants and for non-combattants, both prinzen sizes and the mini

Paul, that`s a good choice... I will join your new thread today in the evening with some material, I just have to make 1357 scans...

Hi colonialists... the problem is that every german colonial campaign and it`s medals and clasps, it`s ribbon bars and medal bars, it`s award documents and award criterias is a universe for itself... I think you can`t open a thread and put as much colonial information in it as possible - you won`t find anything again after some days... Make one thread for China, one for DSWA, one for the other colonial actions - then you have a chance to see a lot and find it again greetings Heiko

Of course I would be very interested, too... please give us more details!!!

yes it was my mistake,too.... I concentrated on the RAO far right and forgot Friedrich on the left... thank you very much for the same as always "LEARNING, LEARNING, LEARNING!!!!!"

Hi Rick, I know what you were talking about but these vets organizations ribbons were NOT for medal bars, mostly they had some unit info or the name of the warriors club printed on the ribbon. The black/white on your piece is from prussia, same is from baden in red/yellow, from w?rttemberg in red/black and so on...

Hi Christian, your ribbon is for the 100 year regimental medal 1813-1913 of the Regiment von L?tzow. greetings Heiko

these bavarian war AND peacetime mvk medal bars are too cool... always again I am very happy when I see them!!!

very interesting..... I have never seen this cross before thanks for the help so far... maybe it helps if I tell you the stations of his life that I know from the documents I have... 1. 2 shooting books 1892-1895 Magdeburger Infanterie Rgt N?66 2. award document shooting badge (Sch?tzenabzeichen) 1894 Magdeburger Infanterie Rgt N?66 3. Centenarmedal 1897 Infanterie Rgt "Herzog von Holstein" (Holsteinisches N?85) 4. Marriage document 1900 in Shanghai (now Zahlmeister-Aspirant at 5.Ostasiatisches Inf.Rgt) 5. China medal bronze 1901 3.Ostasiatisches Infanterie Rgt (now as Zahlmeister-Aspirant) 6. 9y service medal 1902 in Tientsin as Zahlmeister-Aspirant 3.Ostasiatisches Inf.Rgt 7. Bestallung as Unterzahlmeister for the Zahlmeister-Aspirant Feldwebel in 1906 at Bezirkskommando Magdeburg (original signature by Von Hindenburg) 8. Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen in 1911 as Unterzahlmeister in 4.Th?ringisches Infanterie Rgt N?72 9. now comes our bulgarian friend... 10. Bestallung as Zahlmeister in 1913 by prussian war ministry 11. Iron cross 1.class as Zahlmeister in 1918 at 5.Lothringisches Infanterie Rgt.N?144 12. 25y Long service cross as Zahlmeister in 1920 at 5.Lothringisches Infanterie Rgt.N?144 13. Bestallung as Kassensekret?r (some kind of civil Zahlmeister) in 1920 at a Berlin ministry 14. Honour cross for frontfighters as Kasseninspektor in 1934 15. silver honour needle of the Kyffh?userbund in 1941 Here ends my nearly 50 years of history of Oskar Grimm, but I would still want to know what he got that bulgarian one for.... Heiko

again I have only one word for this bar..... WWWWWWOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!! Thats why I love the imperial way of life...

thanks so far genlemen!!! Has anyone a picture of this order or any information why he could have got this one??? Heiko

complete...gigantic!!!

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Hi all, here I have a unknown award document of an imperial german soldier who had over 30 years military service as Zahlmeister, he went everywhere... China, ww1 and the hard Weimar times. I have over 30 documents of him, some signed by very high people like Von Hindenburg and Groener. Here is now an award document that I cannot read, I think it is maybe bulgarian? It is made of thick high quality paper and is very big: 30x45cm !!! It is a double paper, on one picture you can see it complete with 60x90cm !!! It is dated on 26.5.1912 and has the award N?66 !!! I think you can see everything on the pictures, if more info is needed please mail. My questions are: What country is this award document from? What award is this document for? What was this award given for? Can someone show me the award? Thank you very much for your help!!! Heiko

Rick, you have a "Kalahari 1908" bar , not 1907... 1908 was for germans

Good morning Gerd, now it`s getting an adventure the battle clasp "NOSSOB" was given for the battles between 25.3.1905 - 7.5.2005 in the area of two rivers "Kleiner Nossob" and "Gro?er Nossob" (little nossob and big nossob) which is located north-east of Gross-Namaland. the battles were Aminuis 25.3.1905, Nnibkobis 8.4.1905 and Ganachab 7.5.1905 - these three battles were put together for the battle clasp "Nossob" But now we have a "Nassob-River" as well (just googled too...) but all hits give the Nassob-River as the border between Botswana and South-Africa and not beween Namibia and Botswana for example. The little and the big Nossob come together and are running then as one river, the Nassob-River.... So maybe in german it is the Nossob-River (little and big) and in english it is the Nassob-River. But this Nassob is not on former german territory.... MAY I ASK THE QUESTION IF THIS "NASSOB" CAN BE SOME KIND OF A BRITISH BATTLECLASP ????????? Of course private purchased, not the typical british style... or maybe a dutch one??? Who else has been in the area of South Africa and Botswana? I am just feeling like "Heiko Potter and the magic clasp" PLEASE HELP!!!!

nice ribbon bar with two enameled austrian minis on it, no needle system, for sewing on the uniform...

I can`t remember who`s ribbon bar this was....

this is the one from Nordwind, isn`t it?!

one more...

some more from the archive...

something from my picture archive...

and again the 100% original TIENTSIN....