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First let me say what a WONDERFUL grouping!!

He was quite a high Post official. Abteilungspr?sident - that should equal to at least Oberst rank, maybe more.

I will see what I can translate.

Minor point: "Erhebung" is not annexation. This is a coin to commemorate the 1848 uprising against the Danish government.

And BEWARE AGAIN!

gruenauge68 is currently offering this fake at 99 Euros: :speechless1:

Someone STOP HIM!!

This one is currently at 86 Euros - and rising! Those people think they will get a REAL Medalla Militar bar!!

It is !

And it ended up at 106 Euros!

Who says crime doesn't pay???

yes, that guy must have bought the Siam bar from am-militaria:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...st&p=237213

sorry too for you Christer...

Someone STOP HIM!!

This one is currently at 86 Euros - and rising! Those people think they will get a REAL Medalla Militar bar!!

It is !

Just look at those devices:

My deepest sympathy!

At least, in your mines, you don't have the Balrog on your back... :cheers:

Congratulations once again!! :cheers:

And his baton is up for sale at Hermann Historica again - starting at ? 45.000.

This monstrosity is currently on ebay.

Guess it's Ohio parts...?

Thanks, but what source are these names from?

Regards, Komtur.

Library catalogs.

Another bar at the German Tank Museum in Munster. A Bavarian long-serving NCO with lots of battle clasps on the DSWA medal:

Hard to say, there are several candidates:

Erich Zacharias, Dr. med. from the University of Jena in 1913

Gotthard Zacharias-Langhans, Dr. med. from the University of Straßburg in 1912

Kurt Zacharias (aus Garnsee), Dr. med. from the University of Freiburg in 1906

Paul Zacharias (aus Plön), Dr. med. from the University of Leipzig in 1901

Max Zacharias, Dr. med. from the University of Königsberg in 1890

This one went for 42 euros! Combination is not that bad - for an inexperienced collector it's hard to tell the fake...

Those two THINGS on the end of the first ribbon bar.

One only makes sense if Carl Eduard gave him one in 1935 and the last... ????

That must be correct: He must have got his HSH2bX in the 30s. Two commander crosses on his ribbon bar. Last one - a Swedish Sword Order Commander:

Ok - there are two things in the collection that I didn't show yet... and they make this bar not correct - but a little less strange...

Now... any idea what the point here is....? :rolleyes:

... and it might be the very one that is on this picture of him:

This is his earlier ribbon bar...

I couldn't resist teasing... Wilhelm Philipps' complete awards are in the German Tank Museum in Munster. They have his RK, DKiG and all the others, most docs too.

Now this is his medal bar - minus the missing St. Henry...

Ok - you wanted it!

Not mine, sadly. But if I had seen this bar (front only), I'd have thought it was a fake...

Nice photo, thanks, interesting info about Brandt, being a prisoner against his own nation, did they know or just assume he was a Norwegian combatatant?

regards

They didn't know - and he fled to Sweden in time.