kunsho

...not to forget the star...

Here is an example of the Italian Order of the Crown (Officer) and the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus on the bar of Rittmeister Waldemar Bodenstedt, Adjutant of Husaren Regiment 13.

...and this is really an explicitly nice bar, not only for italian collectors. I would say this bar wakes longing...

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Matthias

PS: I do not know any halfway (Is this an English word ?) serious collection without at least one italian medal or order (Italy is everywhere :-)

...and the makers mark "JFS"...

...and the reverse..

May I show you an unquestionable example of the PAB 25 ?

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Matthias

...a first class badge of the sacred treasure (old style with a little bit larger dimensions).

...etui of a third class (old style for members of the diplomatic service and foreign recipients). Inscription of the class is in the inside of the cover (inside is in "maki ?" laquer design).

Matthias

...etui for a fourth class of the Sacred Treasure (the colour for the tazzles of the Sacred Treasure etuis are always purple), early etui - model for members of the diplomatic service and foreign recipients. The inscription is a special type of Kanji - so called "seal characters" (court style).

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Matthias

Liy?kat Medal

As part of a German medal bar...silver Liy?kat Medal with swords (and 1332/1916 dated bar). German manufactured type.

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Matthias

Very interesting picture. Of course because named, but he is wearing the SC on the wrong side, and he doesn't wear his LC Pz Badge that he got during his turn in Spain . Do you want I move the second one into this thread ?

jacques

...I think he is wearing the SC on the wrong site only for the photo. He has never received the LC Pz Badge, because Karl Wald was assigned as as a car - driver (among others for Admiral Canaris), Pz.Rgt 5 in this time. Yes, please move the other (Karl Wald here Pz.Rgt. 8) picture in this thread...

Here a pic of Karl Wald "at work" in Africa, El Alamain (Tank Commander of a type IV tank):

...here is another one...

G?nter Wagner (SC Gold)

Am I alone to have such pics ? please share yours

..you are not alone...

Karl Wald, Panzerregiment 8.

..and here is another one...

FW Karl Wald

Panzerregiment 8

Personal driver of Admiral Canaris (operational area Vinaroz - Valencia) in Spanish Civil war.

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Matthias

Sorry because of the size limitation for "newbies" some details may be not good enough...thats the result of the shortage..

The W?rttemburg bar I listed has:

Long Service in first (out of order, but made that way!)

Wilhelm's Cross with Swords

Austrian War Ribbon with Swords

Flanders Cross with Swords (Veteran's piece)

If I may correct you:

The ribbon you identify as "Wilhelm's Cross" (presupposed the basic color is really red -how it appears-) is the ribbon of the W?rttemberg Merit Cross, 1915-18.

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Matthias

Hi,

thanks a lot.

The third one is Imperial Russia, Medal for (the campaign) 1812 in silver for officers with the ribbon of the Wladimir Order (a blue ribbon was for noncombatants).

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Matthias

....I can provide another one....

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Matthias

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