Josef Rietveld

Sorry, i wrrite about things that aren't in my possesion but i want to show the only picture that exist from this men with connection to pakistan. it was shown in the SDA yesterday. maybe it helps to come to a solution haynau

thanks, as additional info the group belonged to a bundeswehr-general. haynau

In the meantime i habe been told that this medal comes from pakistan and is called Medal of the great Leader (Tamgha-i-Quaid-i-Azam) Type 1 from 1957-1975, gilded bronce The frontside reads :Iman, Ittahad, Nazam = Faith-Unity-Discipline unfortunately i found no pic on the web. Ed Haynes can you confirm this ID ?? haynau

as addition another rather large badge (7,5 x 4,5 cm) from the Heimwehr on occasion of the Landesaufmarsch in Linz 1935 haynau

I borrowed this picture from the sammlergemeinschaft deutscher auszeichnungen. Any idea about the 4th medal (far right)? arab, asia? maybe ed haynes can help thanks in advance haynau

A rare beauty - congratulations and i know whre it comes from haynau

It is a badge from the Schwarz-Gelbes-Kreuz (Black-Yellow-Cross) that was given for Donations. haynau

That is correct but the old photographic material had the characteristic to depict yellow as dark. the second one shows for me red and white haynau

That is true. unfortunately somebody tried to upgrade haynau

I agree with Rick with the 1873 War Medal aswell with the 1866 Tyrolian Medal (but that is only a guess, the picture is too bad) haynau

Nice, shiny but with a lack of history. I'd always had a faible for st.george regrads josef

Hi andy, greetings from vienna. Nive pieces you have. Cased Milosch the Great, Wow - Respect maybe we can have better pictures of your collection regards haynau

More than 2 pfennigs, seems to be a realsilver reichsmark. Sorry, Iam little bit austro-focused. what is the last medal on the bar? haynau

Hi Scott, how are the swords fixed on the center corpus? as far as i know original swords are always screwed, while later added swords are normally soldered just my two cents haynau

the import-hallmark on pin and backside

I own a IC 1st Class hallmarked german 950. The clue: The Cross ist twice hallmarked with an austrian import-hallmark used for small silverware imported to AH. I never realised how rare this cross must be, depending on the numbers of IC given to Austrians shown above. I don't know why there is an austrian hallmark on the cross. maybe it was imported by an austrian jeweller for a costumer? Who knows? Or ist was the IC of a german officer doing service at the austrian staff. funny anyway. Maybe somebody has another theory about this unique IC? I'am sure the market will never pay for that kind of rarity, therefore i will keep it. I showed the cross once, but will do it again on this occasion. i hope you don't mind haynau

more details abbout KVM and IC to Austrians

backside

A little addition: The Kriegerverdienst-Medal was given to german allies through the whole war. Austrian Soldiers and NCO's normally got only the Kriegerverdiesntmedal and NOT an IC. With one exclusion. Some austrian units served directly under german command. In this case a few IC2nd Class were also given to austrian soldiers and NC's. Normally only officers and equal ranks could get an IC. 7123 Kriegerverdienstmedaillien, 7478 EK 2 und 341 EK 1 were given to Austrians during WWI. (All numbers based on an article by J?rg C. Steiner) regards haynau

@Mario, the 'badge' witrh the cypher K shown in #13 belongs to an Austrian-Hungarian Bravery medal for Officers. It looks like a golden one. as illustration a picture of a bar from the WAF (dave danner) haynau

I don't believe picture and bar belong together. the ribbon ist the standard austrian kriegsband used for bravery medals, military merit crosses, military merit medals and merit crosses. the picture shows an german officer. he could only get the miltary merit cross that would be one ribbon. the only possibility i see is that he was ensign (f?hnrich) before and received an austrian bravery medal (they were only given to soldiers, nco's and ensigns). there was the possibility of german officers receiving bravery medals for officers (issued 1917) but al l bravery medal awards i have seen so far for german officers were given post 1918. normally there should be the cypher K on the ribbon aswell. in this case maybe there wasn't enough space left. haynau

Hi Rod, Nice chain with a lot of questions. some points: -This is a special chain for Knights of the Franz-Josef-Order -Normally the FJO-Miniature is on the chain aswell some things i don't like with this miniature-chain: why is there a officers decoration signum laudis with swords (the swords were in instituted in 1917) an NO other austrian WWI-Decorations like minimum the Karl-Truppen-Kreuz or a wound medal. Active officers didn't wear this frock-chains because the always wore uniform. So IMHO this chain was used after 1918 and before the commemorative medals from austria, hungary, Tyrol or Germany have been issued. On the other hand the chain belongs to a FJO-Knight a decoration that was very very seldom given to low-ranking officers like lieutenant or captain in peace AND wartime. if it belonged to a higher-rank-officer there should be at least the 1898-medal or a 25years-service-cross for officers on the chain aswell I see three options: Maybe this chain was once plundered (silver signum laudis, militry merit cross, etc) Maybe an empty chain was once filled up Maybe this chain once belonged to a doctor doing service during WWI. But most doctors got red-cross-decorations aswell. where are thay on this chain? you see, questions over questions haynau

Hi Rocky, both tinnies date as far as i know from the same period 1916-1918. hermann was an austrian producer. i'am not very much into tinnies, i have only books where some are pictured. i guess both are not that common. if you want to sell them once i would try ebay because the market for turkish tinnes is beyond rationality and the prices are very high at the moment. haynau

@Rocky A) Silver Pin of the Red Crescent Fair 1916/17 B) Commemorative Pin of the victory of the dardanelles showing 2 guarding soldiers. is there a reverse side also showing enver pasha? regards haynau

Hi Alex, there were different types of hook and eye BTW the picture shows a signum memoriae medal not a signum laudis (military merit medal) haynau