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Well, Since no one has taken any time to weigh in:  Here's my best guess, it seems to be a period cross.  Obviously with a lot of damage.  I would love to see a shot showing the seam of this.   It looks like a zimmermann piece IMHO.  This is just my rough observation.   Value is something that ebbs and flows with this.  I would think 175USD-240 USD in this condition.  This is just my opinion though. 

Best Regards,
JustinG

Greetings, This is a fine grouping. The only thing I am seeing off hand is the Kreuzer Prinz Eugen.   The "E" in Eugen is a bit suspect.  This is a great field to collect. This is one of my specialty fields, as it is a great way to have a representation of a field unit, shore station, school, or ship.  You have a nice frame with it.  You say this grouping was from only one sailor?  This is quite an array of tallies.

Ships and units were able to have tallies until the OKM implemented the mandate that named tallies were no longer to be worn and that they would all use the standard "Kriegsmarine" tally.    I have seen provenance of sailors who have served with units and have tallies in their photo albums who were assigned to that particular unit after the order was given.  This might be the case here.    Sailors could also purchase tallies on their own from canteens and such.  Perhaps this person was able to collect other tallies not necessarily from his service units. 

Anyway, it is a nice collection.  I would pass on that bit of information to your friend about the Kreuzer Prinz Eugen piece.  This is one of the most heavily faked pieces.  Take note of the reverse, this stitching pattern is from the looming process, it has that staggered reverse pattern.  Most modern fakes cant replicate this.  

All the others look pretty good though. 

Best Regards,

Justin G

I am getting started on this model. 

I appreciate your candor in coming and addressing the members here about the realities of the costs to operate.  Whatever you decide, that will be fine.  Thank you again for your incredible hard work in this forum. 

Best Regards,

JustinG

Thought I would share my photomerge art with the 22 Named Zerstörer tallies of the Kriegsmarine. 

Best Regards,

JustinG

My Tribute to the S.M.S Derfflinger  showing both my silver and Gold Mützenbänder of this ship. 

Thanks for looking.

JustinG

Here is a document that explains the creation of this particular unit. 

So wonderful that you were able to re-bring all these items back and form a great collection. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us on the forum.  It is very impressive.

Best Regards,

JustinG

So here we go a close up scan of the tally. 

Here is a really rare one.  There is also an abbreviated version of this unit.  Both are rare and aren't seen too often. 

I am happy to add it to my collection. 

Wehrerstatzinspektion Schleswig-Holstein. 

Thanks for looking.

JustinG

Some other rarity ones.  This one is not out of focus.  It is blue and was issued as blue.  Although, most blue bands are HJ Marine related, this one is not.  It too is extremely rare.

Hopefully, this one will arrive soon from Germany.  This was my last one for the completed battle of Jutland named ships.  S.M.S Luetzow

Thanks for looking,

JustinG

Here's one I did just awhile ago.  Wanted to keep this thread alive.

JustinG

I had fun doing some editing of items from my collection. 

Interesting, I am not familiar with this piece.  I will say that it does bear resemblance to the eagle of the Luftwaffe, but I don't think that this would be a de-nazified piece as the wreath and talon/claw are on the same level/height.  What is the black material? Cloth or felt? 

An interesting piece.  I hope to hear exactly what this is. 

Best Regards,

JustinG

Count Von Luckner's notable ship.  Now there was also a Buzzard Class cruiser that also bore the name Seeadler from the later 19th century.  There is no real way to determine if it was issued/made for one ship vs another that had the name Seeadler.   I like to think it came from the Sailing ship.  

Best Regards

JustinG

Just picked up this lovely tally.  S.M.S. Moewe One of the successful Hilfskreuzer/ Raider for the first World War. 

I personally use Sketchbook Pro.  I would love to learn to use Adobe® Photoshop, but most of the videos and instructions there seems to be a big learner gap in what is presented and what is currently the layout and functionality of the program.  I also use a  Wacom® 22" HD Touch tablet.

Best Regards,

JustinG

I used the same flag but incorporated into this S-boat

Agree with the others. Great job.

Best Regards,

JustinG

Nice and highly desirable awards.  Have you done research to see the recipients of each of the Blood orders?  Hopefully, your collection was obtained earlier that the 2000, I would imagine that the price for the Blood orders would be several thousands of dollars now.   Quite impressive. 

Very jealous. 

Thanks for sharing.

Best Regards

JustinG

Hi Don,

Good question about the color of the bands. 

Gold Script: Seemännisches  (Deck Related personnel)

Silver Script: Schiffstechnisches Technical (engineering) Administrative

Red Script: Schiffsjungen (Cadets)

Metal thread was used.  Cotton thread was introduced in early 1917 so Yellow Cotton for gold and white cotton for silver. 

S.M.S. is Seiner Majestäts Schiff      (German for His Majesty ship)  

K.u.K.  (Austrian)  Kaiserliche und Königliche 

There is a quick breakdown of some important tally information.

Here is a grouping of Mützenbänder from the Battle of Jutland.

SMS Elbing

SMS Frankfurt

SMS hamburg

SMS Hessen

SMS Regensburg

SMS Pillau

SMS Stuttgart

Others

Bernd,

Deepest thanks and sympathies are extended to you during this difficult time. It is with gratitude that there is such a great resource for Mützenband enthusiasts like myself.  I am sorry for the difficulties that you faced during this last project. 

Thank you ever so much and sympathies to you during your loss.

JustinG

Es ist mit tiefster Sympathie und vielen Dank für Ihren unglaublichen Beitrag zu diesem Sammelgebiet