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A similar ribbon bar with Turkish awards that got sold for 300+ euros:

Look here: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8947 Regards Chris

The last one is a Swedish Vasa order, Knight 2nd cl. A pre-WW1 award.

Very nice and very rare! Never seen that last one before. Regards Chris

Those are great pieces - especially with all the historical details. I understand you got his original empty box for the Romanian Commander Cross and added the order itself?

I agree - very dangerous for someone with not enough experience. This guy overdid it, though: - Saxons ribbons first: ok we are clever -- but Thuringian awards second: NOOO - no back shown - wrong device on Austrian ribbon - and what should make EVERYONE suspicious: EK device AND swords on EK ribbon! But still dangerous, yes!

Great work! All the best Chris

Bad! Really bad! But a new style of fakes, it seems to me. Some old parts apparently - and no hand-snipped Ohio catch.

Hello Alexandre, I started a small thread on Olbricht a while ago, but couldn't identify all of his awards: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3765 He definitely had a number of foreign decorations too, so the one behind his Hungarian Commem should be foreign. Here's a pic with his medal bar: Regards Chris

The current issue of Der Spiegel has the Weizsäcker family as title story. It is not much known however that apart from his later career as diplomat and State Secretary in the Nazi Foreign Office, Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882-1951) was a very highly decorated Korvettenkapitän in the Imperial Navy. According to his entry in the 1918 MRL, he had war awards: HHOX WMV3 WF3aX LübH OFA1 EK1 plus, according to his bio: ÖEK3 ÖMK3 TH peacetime awards: GSF3b OV3b RAO4 KO4 Siam White Elephant Order 5th cl Except for a PLM, not much is missing. I wonder if anyone got a picture of him with his medal bar.

That is a nice picture - and a great coincidence indeed... BUT that doctor is not Joedicke. He did not have the BMV4X. And he had a Black Wound Badge.

Another example, Imperial service and almost Imperial officer: Dr. med. Theodor Joedicke (1899-1996), Fähnrich in the Bavarian Army in 1918, then served as doctor in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht (final position as Chief of Staff of Army Medical Inspectorate). After the war Generalstabsarzt (2 star General) and Inspector of Medical Service of the Bundeswehr from 1957 to 1962.

Wonderful!! Congratulations!

Exactly. I was about to say that myself. Chris

Yes, this is the ribbon bar of an Austrian veteran. The last four are commemorative awards from Austrian veteran organisations, but not sure which ones.

First one is my guess, too. And I think that holds for other LS decorations (notably after WW1), too: if you didn't apply, you would not get it automatically. Some didn't care, they had enough already and didn't find it worthwhile. Great find, Paul!

Simply great. Those results make slave labor worthwhile in the end...

I think I've found another reason for his affection towards the Garde-Schützen-Bataillon: There was an Oberstleutnant von Besser commanding the GSB in 1866. Is it possible that this was his father? I don't have the relevant ranklists, could anyone check this?

Wonderful! The entire NCO heaven is looking down on you!

Here's a Witwenkreuz lapel bow:

And this one:

Back again. What about this one....?

Very nice! He was from Weilburg. Dr. med. from the University of Tübingen in 1891 ("Über Blitzverletzungen").

Great photos, Daniel, never saw them before! Here's a more common one with him in color - before he got the swords:

Here's the link to the original Spiegel article - with photo: http://wissen.spiege...pdf&thumb=false According to this article, he was selling his order at the following prices... Knight: 1500 marks Officer: 3000 marks Commander: 6000 marks Grand Cross: to be negotiated And btw, Huesken is selling all classes of this order... including the award doc to "Grossmeister" Sayffaerth...