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On ‎08‎/‎01‎/‎2019 at 09:45, Solomon said:

Maybe the 2nd orange ribbon is related to The Netherlands, e.g. house-order Oranje merit medal?

Then the arrangement of the ribbons would make sense:

All Prussian orders first, then the two Lippe-awards and on the last position the foreign Oranje-order.

Could the last one also be the Baden Verdienstmedaille?

On ‎22‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 15:11, Bob said:

To add to this resurgence

Here are my 2 cents, double Tamara ribbon on knopfloch spange...

34 minutes ago, ccj said:

Another that I really like

That's awesome, one of the nicest I've ever seen

On ‎25‎/‎12‎/‎2012 at 22:57, ccj said:

I'd like to see as many examples of generals tabs as possible. I hope there are several members with examples.

These came in today. My first foray into ww1 insignia..

2 hours ago, ixhs said:

Hi to all photo freaks:

Here i show you one of my photos. It was taken in Belgium in 1915.

The guys had a group breakfirst (so i can read it on the backside) - the guy

in the middle is a Geheimrat with a IC non combatant in his buttonhole. (1915 is really early for that ribbon!)

I cannot read his name.

who can help? Thanks.

zähringer 37.tif

The third row reads "im Feldlazarett 7. 19 Armeekorps."

20 minutes ago, ccj said:

Nice, what’s the 5th ribbon on the bottom ribbon bar?

Hi. It's a ww1 veterans medal. See also

Hi all,

Here's a couple I haven't shown before. Regards. Peter

On ‎26‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 18:25, VtwinVince said:

If it's 'Schwerter am Ring', this combo should be identifiable.

Hi all. Thanks for all the comments so far.

Does anyone have access to the information of those awarded the swords on the ring?

Thnx. Peter

Hi. I'm reading it as something as [J.Gosdt, d[em] 9.11.21, uber dem Os[..]im sollt...]. Would you be so kind as to post the entire text from the back? Maybe more letters can be deducted from the rest.

Peter

Hi all. I thought I'd present you with another ribbon bar from the last Zeige lot.

Any thoughts?

Thnx and regards. Peter

Hi all. Thanks for taking the trouble and time. Lot's off new information for me. WW1 is still a new collecting area for me
and I appreciate all the information.

Seeing all those nice medal bars, I might be tempted to go into those myself

Thanks. Peter

Hi all,

I thought I'd post one the ribbon bars from the last Zeige lot. This one features the Red Eagle order with the bow and swords. There are no holes so the prongs do not go through and are held in place by the ribbons. It looks like just for this reason a wide ribbon for the Eagle order was used to fixate everything in place. All ribbons blacklight negativ.

Any thoughts in general and any thoughts on what that second all yellow ribbon is?

All comments appreciated.

Thanks. Peter

On ‎23‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 06:09, VtwinVince said:

Those are cool. I think you have a double Mecklenburg MVK combo, Schwerin and Strelitz. I agree that the black ribbon is a Johanniter, that is a really interesting combo on that one.

Thanks, that explains the double Mecklenburg ribbons. It looks like the accompanying ribbon bar was sold by Zeige at an earlier date. Does anybody know where it is? Would be nice to reunite the 2 pieces...

Hi all,

I picked up some buttonhole spanges lately. Two of these came from Zeige. Please see the pictures

I've got some questions concerning these:

- The top one; is that a life saving medal from Wurttemberg?
- Bottom left: the two Mecklenburg ribbons, what do they represent? I reckon one will be the MVK but
what about the other?
- Bottom right: the first ribbon, Johanniter order?

Any thoughts? I'll post some of the ribbon bars of the Zeige lot at a later date...

All feedback appreciated

Thanks. Peter

I just checked several of the source html files and it looks like all images were uploaded to the GMIC server so I reckon they should all still be on the GMIC server. I think the problem is related to faulty URL's either on the website and/or in the database. For example, if I open the first image via the website via the following URL i find nothing:

http://gmic.co.uk/gallery/image/7945-device-swords-leaves-03/

If I instead use the following link from the HTML I do find the image:

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/gallery/album_344/sml_gallery_160_344_10064.jpg

Please check

3 hours ago, Stogieman said:

I have not crawled the auction sites in years. That must have been some lot of bars!

For those who like to know, this was the entire lot of bars.

1 hour ago, Stogieman said:

Is that a sew-on bar? Or is it missing the pin? Thanks. Very nice bar.

Hi. It's a sew-on bar.

Regards. Peter

 

At first I thought: Navy (Mecklenburg and Oldenburg awards). But he is not listed in the Navy Rolls. The backing also looks black rather than blue, so I thought Army. 

Actually, he was both: A Marine. And not just any one: he was commander of one of the German Marine Regiments. 

It took a while to find him, but this is 

Oberstleutnant Ulrich von Usedom. Born Schwerin 27.10.1871. In 1914, he is listed as Major in the Adjutantur of the III Army Korps, holding a RAO4, Johanniter and the Life Saving Medal (and, not listed: Centenary Medal). From 4.9.1916 until 1918, he was commander of the 1st Marine-Infanterie-Regiment. In 1918 he returned to the Army and ended WW1 as Oberstleutnant aD. Alive in 1931. He was awarded/gazetted

HHOX on 23.11.1916

BZ3aX on 2.2.1916

SA3aX on 16.6.1917

 

Regards 

Chris

Dude, many thanks, I'm speechless  

 

A very interesting bar. Are those two silver eagles?

 

A very interesting ribbon bar. Congratulations.

 

 

Hi Peter,

Thanks for sharing this one.  If it couldn’t be in my collection, I’m glad it is in yours!  Another great bar in a great overall lot.  Usually we have to buy a lot of hum-drum bars for the one or two we actually want.  But most of the bars included in this lot were very good.

As I had shared, I don’t think that this bar can be identified; too bad there aren’t any other equally unusual decorations over and above the one to cross reference.  Perhaps there’s something I’m missing and you’ll have better fortunes, though.  There are some amazing researchers on this forum.

Regardless, a very nice bar and unusual for what it is.  Congrats again for picking up some very nice bars for your collection!

=)

J-

Guys, thanks for your kind words, much appreciated

@Jason, my friend,

As allways, you are too kind  And I agree. This lot is quite exceptional in that it’s overall quality of the bars is high. The previous owner certainly knew what he/she was doing. For this bar, my best bet would be to eliminate as much names as possible, preferably from the group of 69 airforce personnel, or otherwise from the large group of 1760. This could take a while though...

 

A very interesting bar. Are those two silver eagles?

Here's a close up of the eagles. Although the silver wash is already partially gone, it is still visible on both.

Dear all,

Hereby the last of the ribbon bars from the Zeige lot I would like to show.

A Luftwaffe ribbon bar with Prussian gold military merit cross.

Any thoughts? Could this one be one of those 69 or 70 airforce personnel who received this during ww1?

Thanks. Peter

Dear all,

I would like to show you this nice 11 place ww1/ww2 ribbon bar from the Zeige lot.

Any thoughts?

Regards, Peter

Thanks for your compliments guys

As a bonus, I will feature 2 more from the Zeige lot

Thanks for your kind words guys, much appreciated

Dear all,

I would like to show you the third ribbon bar from the Zeige lot from last auction.

Another Prussian. 1914-1918. Grey Heer backing. Godet made. Notice the peacetime Bavarian ribbon. Which one could it have been, BMVO or BMVK?
Notice also the flattened swords on the Bulgarian merit order, almost looks like a worn out die.

Any thoughts? All feedback appreciated

Regards. Peter