VtwinVince
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Details look pretty good on this one. I know that these have been heavily faked, so caution is in order.
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Hi Jan, Holders of the Garter who were awarded foreign orders which made the allowance for the addition of the Garter wreath wore these, obviously a small number of princely types.
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Very cool, just needs a couple of replacement pieces to restore it.
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I get heart palpitations looking at this thread.
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Thanks, here are images the right way around!
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That is interesting, and difficult without the lower inlet. Looks like the impression of a star in the satin lining. I would guess a foreign order made by Godet.
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Can we see the inscription? You sure it's the GMMM, and not a silver?
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Both those bars look very nice, with plausible combos. From my limited experience with Austrian post-1934 bars, it seems that the Austrians were more reticent about putting the WW1 Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian medals on their bars than the Germans, who loved to 'pad' theirs.
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Right Sascha, that guy is a terrible purveyor of crap. I see the same stuff being offered every week, and apparently there are buyers for this Schrott.
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The only others that come to mind are the AH aviation badges.
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Mystery solved, and that WAS a weird one.
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Do you mean shoulderboards and collar insignia?
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You're right, it is weird. But the bar is definitely not messed with, at least until I got it. I'm still leaning towards a royal HOH, peacetime award that is not in the correct precedence.
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Thanks Sascha. This one has been bugging me for some time. If it's a HEKmK in that position, I thought that wouldn't be right either, since this is clearly a Prussian bar and a Hohenzollern would classify as a 'foreign' decoration, or?
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No problem with it being awarded to field grade officers, sometimes with the Oakleaves.
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Great photo, and nice to see the Carl Anton medal in wear.
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EK1 awarded by the kaiser
VtwinVince replied to Chris Boonzaier's topic in Germany: All Eras: The Iron Cross
Very cool. I had an EK1 that had been awarded by Wilhelm to a Bavarian pilot in 1916 and was engraved as such on the reverse. Pity I don't have it. -
I also agree, these have been faked in huge numbers lately.
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Very unusual and interesting. My uncle was Staffelfuehrer of the Polizei-Flieger-Staffel Karlshorst at the time of the Kapp Putsch.
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Looks like goofy reihenfolge on this one, with EK2 in second position.
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That is very interesting.
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It's true, there is no distinction between the Grosskreuz and the Komturkreuz in size, unlike the KO1 and KO2.
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Wow, that is also fantastic. Please post more images.
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Ach du Lieber, can you show us more of that beauty?
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EK 1914 My new non-combattant medal bar
VtwinVince replied to Paul R's topic in Germany: All Eras: The Iron Cross
Here is a weird one, non-combat EK2 with a Spanish coronation medal for Alphonso on the end.
