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It is indeed true. I just got another Email with the wedding date being: May 15, 2007 !!!!! The picture of the 2 ribbon bar is from the wedding already pictured above: He also added the following info: "The regimental history from 1904 lists him as one of 40 volunteers. It also says:" wounded was Unteroffizier Koslowsky at Gross-Nabas receiving soots into his right arm and his left shoulder." It also says:"The following received the Militaerehrenzeichen2nd class...Unteroffiziere Koslowsky, ..."" This is quite amazing. It seems to be the very first picture of somebody wearing the Africa bar !!!!!

Gentlemen, I was asked for help, but was not quite up to the task. I was given a name and several photographs with the question what Adolf Koslowsky is wearing on his two medal bars shown below: His beginning: initial medal bar: later being a "Leutnant" rank in his career: And his last medal bar shown on his field gray WWI picture: ...and the full picture: any help will be appreciated! What medals was he awarded with? My best guess is: a) Militaerehrenzeichen 2.Klasse (OK this one I was told: Wachtmeister at the Th?ringschen Ulanen-Regiment Nr. 6 and recived for his participation in the Deutsch-S?dwest the Milit?r-Ehrenzeichen 2. Klasse in 1906) b) Long Service ? c) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Military Merit Medal with sword bar, but what year? Or maybe even the Africa bar!? d) South West Commemorative Medal with 4 bars, but which ones?

Officially licensed during WWI only Wagner, Friedlaender & Godet.

Just a guess on from my side Ernst August Knight 2nd, no hold on 1st class?!

I have just listed this post card one on Ebay, but thought I should show this here since we have seen it as poster earlier in this thread:

You have seen it Don, but anyway:

...you may want to consider looking at this fine example on ebay, too: EBay PlM The seller says that he has old tooling and casts from them.

I do not think that cross hatching means neccessarily post war. My theory is all along that the tooling was refurbished and refurbished with its time of use. If indeed the detailing was worn out of the tooling, Wagner for sure tried to freshen it up. One has to draw the line between cast and coined. Some of those shown here are definetly cast.

This statement is correct. Almost all decorations were made in a batch process and needed indentification on which parts matched together. You will find those makrings not only on Prussian orders, but on a variety of state orders and decorations.

Does anybody know how this may be. It looks like he is wearing the following: a) Bavaria: 1849 or 1866 cross b) Bavaria: Long Service Cross for 24 or 40 years of service c) Hessia-Darmstadt: Ludwig Knight Cross 1st or 2nd class d) Hessia-Darmstadt: Phillip Order Knight with Swords 1st or 2nd

Thank you!!!!! It looks indeed like someone would do to enhance a form for casting new PlM's. May I add a blow up of the real coined eagle: This may it clear that there is/was a necissity to work the form before casting a glop of eagle. You will find similar ones on ebay - lately.

Looking more and more into polar expeditions, I was wondering if somebody knew something about this topic from the Russian angle. Did the Russians do something there, were any medals or badges issued? Especially in Spitzbergen? Any help is appreciated.

Les, I absolutely agree, there is nothing that does not exisit when it comes to collecting medals. Decorations have been to often repaired, modified or upgraded by the recipient. If you would see the picture, you would certinaly agree. The Crown device looks more like something from a German Shooting Society's price. Yet, it still be possible that this one is one of those modified after 1945 by the Ordensgemeinschaft.

As good or as bad as the Nimmergut may be one has to know that he used a lot of photoshoped pictures in there as much as known fakes and fabrications. The crown and oak leaf devise has nothing to do with anything sanctioned by the orders chancellery before 1918, but could certainly be something given by the "Ordensgemeinschaft" long after the wars.

I will take one of each for sure.

To make this thread a little bit more colorful But no name

Congratulations - a bar with stroies to tell. On a side note: As a seasoned business traveler there is no comparison with todays and those days travel. Imagine going to war in South america in the 19th century.

Can you post a picture of the reverse? I am very curious about the Brazilian medal.

Isn't Meyer (Hofkunstanstalt) an Austrian Manufacturer?

...and another before 1918 Inhaber Cross for comparison:

I agree. Especially since this is a bar made after 1934. The soldier was already awarded with the albert with crown. But keep in mind that the crown was awarded in larger number to the likes of a Major rank during WWI. Mostly for retirement during the war. Hence the combination is possible. I used to own a similar bar with the addition of a Griffin order knight.

Only pre Doorn from before 1918:

I have not paid much attention to this topic, but remembered the Eagle of the Knights. It is actually pictured in Thies's 22.Auction page 36 #75: "Adler der Ritter, vergoldet und emailiert. Am Originalband. im Originaletui des Juweliers Gebr. Godet, Berlin.Schoenes einwandfreies Original aus dem Exil in Doorn. in dieser Ausfuehrung extrem selten. Zustand 2. 400"

Bronze gilt can look exactly like gold, is even lightweight. think of all those bronze gilt Ernestine House order 1st class badges with swords, people thing that they are gold, but really are not.....

The case is indeed a late case, but are you sure the center of the cross is really gold? Should be bronze gilt.