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a honved buckle m1911 mad eof two parts... "body" is steel (on the reverse still with colour), coat of arms brass...

New four pieces in my collection... :)

Elmar Lang: I don´t have seen another copy for sale... only the "reedition" from 1990th...

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text pages..

New in my collection:

F.Heyer von Rosenfeld: Orden und Ehrenzeichen der Oesterreichisch - Ungarischen Monarchie, II. edition, Wienna, 1899

25 pages of text, 12 grafic Tables.. Very nice book for collectors of A-H. orders and medals...

Klara: What do U need? Maybe we could help too...

Very nice FJO,

I read that HUW started to make FJO towards the end of the First World War, is it true?

palencia: I must say - I really don´t know, but I would like to.. I hope Josef or Elmar will write something about this cross, it´s manufacturer and about this strange hallmark (maybe imported piece??)...

..marks on ring.. (not much to see, but i will try to make a better photo )

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Just arrived... FJO-R, silver gild, marked on the ring "HUW" (Heinrich Ulbricht´s Witwe) and hallmark "A with wings"...

Hi Matej, welcome to GMIC

The cross is marked with a star (I have seen more photos), that indicates a later period of war, also the material of box indicates the same...

And... he was surely not awarde in the first year of war (have looked in Ehrenbuch der O-U wehrmacht )

The pair needs a little button sewn on where the black thread is thickest for wear in the lapel of a civilian suit.

The three ribbon bar is quite an odd combination. The War Merit Medal was given to factory workers and that sort of person-- to have a KVK2X and an Iron Cross is quite unusual. The two ribbons woven together doesn't bother me as much as the combination of that with the KVM. Backing material is quite crudely applied and does not make me happy. It COULD be an ugly ribbon bar slapped together by a wearer unconcerned with how things looked... but I'd pass on that one.

Rick: Thanks for your opinion on this bar....

I have bought them together with some A-H ribbons (they were absolutely OK), i don´t collect german ribbons, so if somebody would like to have tho both german "things", its possible to change for A-H....

Hi Peter.. As far as I know, there were two types of k.u. Honvéd buckle, have to look tomorrow in my "archive" if I have also photos.. Here in Slovakia I have seen a lot of photos of A-H soldiers wearing Honvéd buckle. At least so much as soldiers wearing classic A-H buckle (kuk Heer, ladwehr)

Brian: Of course I can not say that this is the medal he is wearing on his portrait... It was normal, that officers (who had more money) had more of medals awarded - self purchased- to have one on each uniform ...

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I need opinion on this ribbon... 18x42mm

plate is steel, (copper finish?), more - see photos..

Hmmm.... Austrian republic - badge for 1.000 "operations" (fuer 1000 Einsaetze)...???