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Here are the reverse of aviation badges.

First one :

And the second one :

Greetings !

Hi !

Look really like a scharffenberg one...

Very pleasant these st Henry crosses !

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I always considered it as a challenge to bring together in the same collection theses three WW1 war crosses, the most beautiful in my opinion...

From left to right :

- Saxony Weimar Wilhelm Ernst war cross

- Reuss War merit cross

- Saxony Cobourg & Gotha Carl Eduard war cross...

The two first crosses are mine, the third is an image taken from google, to complete the view...

You guessed... I search the third one... A day, maybe...

If ever... someone...

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Last and recent find...

A very nice Wilhelm Ernst Kriegskreuz, from Sachsen Weimar... Special mention to @Deruelle, who is fond of this kind of Saxon thing ... 😁

A really nice cross, wanted since a looonngg time...

Not perfect, the right laurel have been repaired, but the enamels are generally intact...

One-sided swords...

A very long wait for this one...

This deserves some better pictures...

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Really hard to remember the dates of acquisition...

I think I never showed this Knight's cross of Baden Berthold I. order...

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Short break...

I'll continue after dinner...

A few more germans, and few imperial austrians too...

And now, a great purchase, 2 or 3 years ago (begining of the covid pandemic if I remember...)...

A so lovely and nice order !!!

Brunswick Henry the lion order, knight cross 2nd class...

Stamped S at the top of the crown (back)...

Some enamel chip on the green laurel...

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And I don't know if had the occasion of showing this lady's Strelitz cross... (Ribbon has been replaced by a new and modern one...)

6 minutes ago, Stogieman said:

Not sure you can call that a break from collecting! Very beautiful pieces, thanks for sharing!

1 or 2 pieces found by year...

Not really attentive on auctions, sellers... but a few opportunities seized when I had time...

35 minutes ago, VtwinVince said:

Both nice pieces, any markings on the RAO?

No, nothing I have seen... 🤔

Something what I wanted for a long time, and hard to find...

A red cross medal for Oldenburg !

In its original box...

Some close up...

Hi gentlemens !

After a long break in collection, i'm back in forum...

These 5-6 past years have been very busy (home, child x2, pandemic etc.), but I never really cease to collect some imperial stuffs...

Not a lot of orders or awards, but it's still hard to find what I search...

Please let me show you what it's all about...

Some years ago, I acquired a nice Wurtemberg crown order, knight cross with X :

Followed some month later by a prussian RAO 3rd class cross with bow ribbon :

I also have the opportunity to acquire some reduction bars :

And some aviator badges :

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A silber Annerkenungsmedaille...

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The latest mini : a nice Lippe group...

Thank you all !

Here are the close up :

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Can you tell me what were the awards of GFM von der Goltz ?

I search especially three last medals of the medal bar, and the last breaststar...

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I can add some pictures for the 1830-1871 period :

Hi Leo,

Here are my comments on your list :

- cross with royal crown and two french flags on the Revers, Henry IV ROI DE FRANCE on Avers, this is the 7th Type (Monarchie de Juillet)

- cross without crown and Napoleon I. BONAPARTE 1er CONSUL 19 MAI 1802 on Avers, Revers ? (the two flags again?) yes ! this is the 8th Type (2nd Republic)

- cross wih imperial crown, Napoleon I EMP. DES FRANCAIS on Avers and imp. eagle on Revers, this is the 9th Type, very similar to the 4th Type (Présidence)

- cross wih imperial crown with small eagles, Napoleon I EMPEREUR DES FRANCAIS on Avers and imp. eagle on Revers, this is the 10th Type (Second Republic EMPIRE)

- cross with wreath, Marianne CERES / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE on Avers and the Date 1870, two french flags on the Revers, this is the 11th Type. (Third Republic)

And here we are !

You can find here, on the Royal Army Museum of Brussels web site an interesting (but not complete) illustration :

http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/collecties/OMD-LDH/index.html

Yours

Bison

And whe can find a lot of variations : this kind for example... A second Republic cross, with imperial eagle on reverse (but with the wrong inscription...

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Nice ones Pinpon! Here's a couple of mine (shown recently).

Second Medal: Oldenburg 1907 Red Cross Medal (award number unknown, but definitely rare)

Third Medal: Schwarzburg Anna-Luisen Verdienstzeichen (215 awards)

VERY very nice !!!!

The Oldenburg's medal !!!! :love:

And finally, this nice 4th class honor cross order (Schwarzburg Sondershausen), with 1914/15 oakleaf : seems to have been not much awarded...

And an other one... I don't have seen a lot of this :

Schaumburg Lippe military merit medal, with red cross...

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Not common at all... Anhalt Marienkreuz

My only one :

with the mini :

and the miniature

kriegsehrenzeichen..jpg

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And mine :

Here is mine :

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Here is mine :

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For me, it is the same medal...