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Aha ! Perfect Thanks Carol I Christer

Hi, is there any good (or bad ) reference books about romanian awards ? I have collected Romania for some years but have a hard time to find info about the awards , use to be same for Bulgarian but now there is a couple of good books out. Best regards Christer

What do you think about this one ? I just bought in on pure instinct and maybe it was a bad beat What I could find out in a hurry is that its from persia Sha time 1960´s ?? It have the original box and a award cert to an English man ... I paid about 60$ was it a bad buy ? And could anyone say something about this medal......... all info is helpful Christer new Persia Collector

Ohhps Sold for almost 300 $ to someone with bigger wallet than me I wish him good luck with finding the missing Crown Order mini Christer

Thanks for all your answers Does anyone know how many of the Oldenburg PFL w Crowns that where awarded ? And what class do it represent ? What I can find on the Net, the Order had 7 classes Grand Cross w Crown Grand Cross Grand Commmander Commander Officer ( No crown ) Knight 1 Knight 2 (no Crown) The question is how many classes where awarded w Crown ? I really like theese minis, so much work on that tiny piece Christer

What about this miniature ribbon with verdienstkreuz (missing) 1897, 1870 with Paris, Metz and ??? I cant find the last medal ? Is it some sort of regiment order? Looks like Oldenburg colour on the ribbon ? Anyone have any clues christer

Aha, I didn´t realize the daten until now Christmas ! Could anyone German speaking translate the message ? M.lb Leibf zur frdl Erg .... something with friendly wishes ??? All the best from Sweden Christer

Book delayed and delayed and ...... Still waiting for the Book from the publisher , promised to be delivered in April, Than beginning of May and now 5th of June Well I have at least found another pic from the landing of the Blackburn Skua in Sweden Here is a pic from a magazine showing the plane moved from the crash site .

Wow, Fantastic work Sergey Christer

Hi all, is it possible to research soldiers from Canada ? I have a photo of a Captain Brett from Royal Canadian Artillery and wonder if there is any possibility to find out anything about him? Best regards from Sweden Christer

Thank for your kind words , I put right away your pics on my site ( I use your GMIC nicname ) And then I foolowed the link to your site, and what a nice site I have totally missed your page before :blush: Super nice ! Although I couldn´t read much (spanish ? ) Are you from the sunny part of Europe ? But the pictures Wonderful, i would love to use some more of your Honor Cross pictures from your website , you have super good pics of the THD and Paul Küst among others Best Regards from Sweden Christer

Wow ! That was a new maker And I have seen a lot, belive me but this one I never heard of Could I borrow the pic of the maker and put it on my web page http://bayoswede.zoomin.se/index/29788.html ? (I of course will give you credit on the page) Great find ! Regards Christer

I to wonder were do he get all the copies from? Some of them look really god (at least to me) Christer

Hi, I just returned from a military market and one of the things a picked up was aribbon bar with the following awards British War medal - 1914-15 Star - British War medal - Victory Medal I will post pics later but my firsy question is : Was it possible to get two BWMs ? I suppose the normal order was Star-BWM-Victory but could he have been part of the operations in Russia 1919-20 and got another BWM later and attached it first on his WW 1 bar ?? The ribbons look and smell nice , old silk ribbons but I have never seen this combo before , anyone got any clues ? Pics will follow ! Christer

Hi Rebeccka , It took some time to find the book , I thought i would be quite easy but since it was published in 1997 it hade gone from most book sellers. But now I have 2 books on the way to Sweden! One for myself and one for your family. The price of the book is 38$ , the next mission eas to find the photo again wich I thought would be the least problem..... But, I haven´t found it yet ..... To my humble defence I have several tousands of World war 1 and world war 2 Photos and postcards. So I have a lot to search trough. And I now for sure that I havent sold it so the photo must be somewhere in my collection BUT I will find it and then I can make a bigger copy for you and enclose with the book. I keep on looking and let you know when the book arives and I find the Photo again ( I will search the house from roof down ) Best regards from Sweden , right now waiting for spring after the worst winter since 1941-42 ! Christer

Hallo Morten, There is a street named Cambridge Street in Glasgow and the manafacturer of the Compass should be Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird 1913-1941 based in Glasgow at the time Exellent find ! Best regards Christer

Aha ! 1000 Thanks Uwe and Naxos Christer

Hi all, anyone know anything about this badge ? Very well made and I suppose it have something to do with Wilhelm ? Best regards from sweden Christer

And here is a somewhat bigger pic of the ribbon bar Christer

And here is a LW Colonel who was in WW 1 and fought in Turkey? He got EK I and a ribbon bar with EK II, BMVO 4, EHK , ?? , LS 6, LS 12,Turkey award, Turkey award , Austria bravery . I try to post a better pic of the ribbon bar but its quite small and unsharp so I dont know if you can recognize the awards ? Christer

First out a Photo from Luftwaffe War school in Halle 1942 , I dont know if these officers are pupils or teachers But I suppose they are puils on some technical course ? The name of the men are written on the back, not much sign of front line awards maybe some sort of desk offcers ? Christer

Hi, I bought this ribbon bar recently, and now I wondering about the story it tells First Winter war com medal - Continuation war com medal - Home front com cross - Northern Viena Cross (winter War ) - EK II A soldier probably a private participating in Winter war behind the front in Army Group 3 (Viena Cross) then again in war 11941 alos behind lines ? Then volunteered into Waffen SS ? and got a EK II. I know that about 400 Finnish soldiers from Winter war joined waffen SS. I have hard to belive that a finnish desk soldier got an EK II or ? Any thoughts ? Christer

Hi all, When searching on the net I found out that SMS Bremen was in USA 1908 ! Wich matches perfect what Andy said about the document in post 3 Here is a photo of the ship, she was later sunk in the Baltic sea 1915. This forum (its members) is just great Christer

Aha ! Thanks Andy ! Interesting to see that he was trained in US. So he was a Ober Heizer , maybe he got his EK II in Jutland Battle. Now I have a little more to go on when trying to find out more about Ober Heizer Otto Merten Again Thank you for your help Regards Christer