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Here is my "Ehrenkreuz mit Schwertern". A really beautiful and very well made award! Sorry for the bad picture, it was made with my old crap scanner...

I think this is an impossible combination. http://cgi.ebay.de/Ordenspange_W0QQitemZ62...1QQcmdZViewItem

From the navy this is my only one.

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Here is my black Navy badge which should be original. Maybe it helps to give you some tips how it should look like. This one is made from iron.

Horridoo Kamerad! Finally you are here How about posting a pic of your fruit salad?

Great!!!

Do you think it is a fake?

Claudio, that Red Eagle is a dream!!!

Welcome onboard Daniel!

Here is a nice Defense of Moscow group. Maybe this is something to research. Orders of Glory were not given "just for fun".

The name of the village is Malancourt. It is northwest of Cote 304. On march 20 1916 a large attack of bavarian units took place in that area (including 3. InfReg from Augsburg and other units). In the back of that area they had many medical camps etc. >Black Wound Badge for wound received 22 March 1916 = at (H?)alancourt per the document-- this was >during the Verdun slaughter. Moved from the Argonne in March 1916, by May the division had lost 68 >percent of its infantry.

WOW!!! So he got a non-comb. EKII in WW1 and another EKII in WW2. THAT is rare!!! I think 99,99 % of all non-comb. EKII 1914 recipients were awarded a KVK in WW2 because they usually had their non-combatant "job" in both wars.

Thanks Rick!

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Another non-combatants medal-bar. This time Baden. It is strange that four out of five awards are mounted reversed.

The ribbons look like new. I hope you checked them with a blacklight.

If this guy was a doctor maybe the hungarian regulations for that medal considered him as "non-combatant" while in the regulations for the Hindenburg cross he was a combatant. I have the same problem with this medal bar. By the EK he was combatant, by the Braunschweig cross not...

New numbers on the right side of the sight:

Closeup of the sight. As you can see the range numbers were changed. Did the finnish used another type of ammo or was the russian unit "Arshin" just too complicated?

Closeup of the stamps. I think it was made in Tula. Maybe someone can help me with a translation of the rest? The finnish stamp "SA" can be seen on the left side under the serial #.

The bolt:

Magazine:

Maybe this belongs to the weapons-forum, but I have some questions who are more into russian history. A nice addition to my tiny WW1 weapons collection. A (deactivated) Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle. NOT the 1891/30; its the much rarer early type. This one was made in 1906 in Tula and has some nice czarists stamps. There is also a finnish stamp "SA" on it, so I think this rifle was capture by the finnish in WW1 or by the germans and later sold to Finnland. The carrying sling is WWII btw.

And a closeup of the serial#: