Beau Newman

By the way the owner should have been a Sergeant in the I.R. No.55 (10th comp.)

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Roman

Just curious, I had already narrowed this down to the 3rd Battl. of IR 55 as likely. Is there something that points to the 10th Comp.? Or does the combination point to one or a few specific individuals.

Many thanks for your excellent info.

That certainly could fit with that ribbon. I just wonder though, would a Lippe award be mounted behind the Wilhelm Centenary Medal on a Lippe group?

The EK is very suspect. The bar is a 1930's style. It probably originally had a 1914 EK and a Hindenburg Cross.

Neat bar. I would agree with you that this would likely be the cross.

Just a little Krieger Verein veteran's medal.

According to Nimmergut, approx. 200 of these went to members of a Jager Company for service in the war with Denmark. The reverse:

And the single, an easily overlooked 1850 Hesse-Homburg Campaign Medal.

The reverse:

SOS was worth the trip this year. I picked up a nice group and a nice single. First, the group - an 1870 EK group with a Lippe-Detmold Silver Merit Cross. The Bar combo. points to the 7th Div., which included the 55th IR, the 3rd Battl. of which was from Lippe:

That may be the best NCO/Warrant Officer group I've ever seen. He must have done something above and beyond simply leading the band to merit the Gold Arts & Sciences Medal. That is an extremely rare award.

The reverse:

My other example - Well worn with a scrap of original ribbon. Named to: "LUDW . HARTUNG . 1 . LIN . BAT ."

That is what I thought. Although it's not an issued piece, the price was right and I'm not likely to find an issued piece in as nice condition.

The reverse:

Here is a rather unusual Brunswick Waterloo I came across. The size and weight are as expected. It has a magnetic split ring suspension. However, the reverse is 180 degrees rotated from the obverse, similar to what is normally seen on coins. There is no engraving on the rim. Any thoughts?

The sword bar looks OK to me, other than being mounted upside down. The loop may have been removed when it was mounted on the bar. This style of hilt is usually seen on silver (not silvered) examples. A different style hilt is often seen on later plated zinc versions. If the medal is silver, it should be marked on the rim near the suspension.

The sword hilts are the Infantry officer M89 style w/o a grip cypher. Definitely Wurttemberg.

That Lebel appears to have one of the adaptor sleeves as shown on Page 81 of John Walter's "The German Bayonet" added to the barrel.

Nimmergut identifies the "F" marked pieces as being by S. Friedberg & Sohne. I have a hollow gold Rechtsritter by this maker and the workmanship is very nice. I'm a little surprised that I haven't seen their work elsewhere. Jacob's book has very little info. on them. Did they specialize in the Johanniter?

The reverse and the Junckers mark:

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Over the years, I've gone back and forth on this piece. It has some desirable aspects but the mark bothers me. Any opinions?

Also, nothing else from 1870/71.

I find it interesting that it has a Bavarian 1870/71 Nursing Cross but, no other Bavarian awards. Also, is there anything that would indicate that these must be Knight's grade awards and not Commander's grade?

The reverse.

This MSH Silver Medal is on an Austrian Style trifold ribbon on a wire frame. Were these awarded to Austrians during WWI? If not, did the Saxons ever use this style of mounting at an earlier period?