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I like to disagree. In 1957 the reborn Germany passed a law allowing the wear of formerly awarded decorations again. Several companies started making the new decorations again. Most are bronze gilt. You may be able to find catalogs from that time showing accurate pictures of those awards. Of course the Pour le Merite and all higher bravery decorations were part of this, just like the St. Henry.

Dear Paul,

I have been trying to remember this book title and just drew a blank. It took me years to finally get into the Hillwood museum to have those extremely nice folks there removing the 1st class badge from its public display and to compare them side by side.

Thanks so much for adding this in order to complete the first online record for the collecting community.

Andreas

Megan

ISBN 5-98343-019-X

This is for voolume 3 which also lists some items in the first two volumes.

Paul

Could you post the pages here?

For those interested in imperial Russian order decorations, I just updated my web page and published some information on the rare Agricultural Merit Order at: http://www.medalnet.net/agricultural_merit_russia.htm

Here the story on the Albert Order with swords on ring. Any decoration with swords on ring is super rare!

http://www.medalnet.net/Albert_swords_on_ring.htm

www.medalnet.net has the correct pieces listed. Whatever does not fit the list is out.

Fake made by Rothe in Vienna

Does the medal have the typical marking on it's rim?

Here the whole bar:

Karsten,

will post soon. It's an officers bar and yes one of the necessary bar is missing for a full Feldartillerie (reitende) history :whistle:

For a change some real ones

Not inclined to use strong words, I will just say: "hXXXX XXXXt"

Congrats!!!

Based on the sash, its from the Eric Ludwigsen collection

Thank you. I will post it for sale since I am not a collector for polish badges.

Does anybody know what this exactly is?

Hammer received the SV3 on 1910 and the SA3 on 1905, both without swords. He received the SA2 on 1913

During the war, he received the SV2X on 1915 and t he SA2aX on 1917.

Christophe

...in that case vanity prevails :whistle:

Saxony allowed to wear the lower grades of an order together with the higher grades. I would be positive that the bar represents the knights badges he was awarded with initially.

That is an amazing medal bar!!!

Wenn man diese Adlermalerei und die Feilspuren and den Kreuzarmkanten sieht bracht man kein Gewicht mehr und definitif zu sagen, dass das Ding nicht von vor 1918 ist.

Oops, I was mentaly in a different forum I meant to wirte as already translated above, that this one has the typical characteristics of a fake. That particular eagle painting design as well as the crude workmanship gives it away.

Wenn man diese Adlermalerei und die Feilspuren and den Kreuzarmkanten sieht bracht man kein Gewicht mehr und definitif zu sagen, dass das Ding nicht von vor 1918 ist.

By the way, do I see a maker mark ???

No maker, but French ET mark. I needed the image for my web page. http://www.medalnet.net/Hallmarks.htm

Sorry, but this is a prime example of a forgery contracted out by a certain German medal dealer, way after the end of WWII even.

Still another shot.

This is a beautiful piece from the very beginning of the lifespan of this order. congratulations.

Just tried to give medal collecting an artistic twist. I posted some more pictures on my Facebook group: "medalnet"