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    Luke

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    1. Need to consult the court of public opinion on this one. I just recently added a Dragoon officer visor to my collection. I've been working on an ID for the original owner based on the Freiherrkrone/Cypher on the liner but running into a problem based on the colour.

      The piping and band are both very distinctly lemon yellow. Standard Prussian/Reich Officer cockades.

      Now the reason why I'm going crosseyed banger.gif .

      There are, on the surface three candidate regiments using yellow

      1) Dragoner-Regt. von Bredow (1. Schlesisches) Nr.4

      2) Dragoner-Regt. König Friedrich III (2.Schlesisches) Nr.8

      3) 2. Hannoversches Dragoner-Regt. Nr.16

      The visor is being sold to me as a 16th.

      "Uniformenkunde Das Deutsche Heer" shows the 8th and 16th as lemon yellow. To contradict this I've seen firsthand an Überrock from the 8th and it is definitely dark(er) yellow.

      Tony on Kaiser's Bunker lists only the 16th as having lemon yellow on the uniform portion of his website (along with the 21st which is not a candidate in this case), however on the visor section he lists the 4th and the 21st as having lemon yellow, the other two regiments having dark yellow.

      In "Lancers and Dragoons" by RJ Marrion the 4th is listed as "pale yellow" facings and the other two regiments are listed simply as yellow. The undress cap chart in this book again illustrates the 4th having this "pale" or lemon yellow band and piping to the cap.

      Dave Mosher in an older thread on picklehaubes.com lists the 4th and 21st as the lemon yellow coloured regiments.

      Its obviously making a difference to me in identifying the owner - the 4th has a couple of candidates as does the 16th (none in the 8th so far).

      Just curious as to what regiment is truly "lemon"banger.gifspeechless.gif

      Cheers,

      Luc

    2. The newest item to arrive - pretty nice shot of an Officer of the Kurmärkisches Dragoner-Regt. Nr.14 in Überrock and undress visor - nice shot of his Cavalry sword with crossed sword langet (doesn't quite show up in my downscaled scans). Pic is somewhat interesting in itself as having been taken by a photographer in Darmstadt as opposed to the garrison town of Colmar.

      The reverse has an inscription which appears to be signed "W.Trautman Dragoner 14" - I'm short of the pre-1910 rangliste, anyone with the 1907 rangliste can possibly give a check and see if our guy is there - or maybe another set of eyes confirming this name, I'm kind of going crosseyed second guessing the letter combinations banger.gif

      Cheers, beer.gif

      Luke

    3. Probably one of the smallest "battles" of World War 1, but for some reason strikes me as pretty interesting - the Battle of San Matteo, fought in the Ortler Alps of Northern Italy. There's not much written about it, there was a combined total (Austrian and Italian) of 27 men killed in the battle - but it was literally fought on the top of a mountain.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Matteo

      In 2004 3 bodies were found at 3400m, it was assumed they died in a grenade attack - absolutely unbelievable.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3592268.stm

      Luc

    4. Ahhhh banger.gif the answer was right in front of me in the 1914 list - totally didn't figure on a spelling mistake! Was giving me fits as everything about the cap seemed to be DR20 Officer and later pre-war. Interesting he's a reservist - Baden cockade doesn't reflect reserve status - but I suppose he "upgraded" with war on the go and/or Ordonnanz Offizier posting. Rick thanks again mate!cheers.gif

      There were two Baden cavalry GIULINIs

      In 1914, page 749: Lt dR DR 20, resident in Hamburg -- he received BZ3bX 06.10.14 as "Lt u Ordonnanz Offizier 28. Res Div" and

      page 750: Lt dR DR 21, resident Heidelberg, BZ3bX 18(or 15--Roll is illegible which is why the late Erhard Roth gave up at this point)06.18 as "Oberlt u Ord Offz 25. Res Div."

      Yours is presumably the former, and the tailor screwed up the unfamiliar Italian name. beer.gif

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