Solomon

The fraternity badge is quite easy to interpret, as everything is engraved: E.Marx s´l. Hermann Kellner (s´l. = seinem lieben = for his beloved) z.fr.Erg. Berlin S.S. 95 (z.fr.Erg. = zur freundlichen Erinnerung = in memory) I don´t know for what S.S. stands, maybe a district of Berlin. 95 means in my opinion the year 1895. So this batch was presented from E.Marx to Hermann Kellner in 1895. Both were members of a fraternity. The chiffre (maybe TA) is the logo of it, so far I wasn´t able to identify which one, as Berlin had quite a lot.

Hi gents, interesting items, but I´m sure they are not related (directly) to "my" Kellner II. My Kellner II. was wearing during his military service the sabre for officer of the "Lippische Füsiliere". I have one of these very rare sabres in my collection (not Kellner II.´s one). These sabres were worn until 1867 and re-worn by the Gendarmerie Lippe-Detmold afterwards. Hermann Kellner II. didn´t participate in the war 1870/71, as he was already retired. Kellner II. married in 1861 Maire Luise Niemeyer and had a daughter with her named Klara Luise Pauline. I have also more than 100 private letters of the Kellner-family, so there might be the solution. Hermann Kellner II. had a brother named Hermann Kellner I. (also in military service), might be that the items are coming from this family tree. BR Roman

LDH1 awarded by Graf Adolf von Götzen on 13th June 1904 (and returned after death on 21st March 1911). No other Lippe-Detmold awards are recorded. BR Roman

What do you need? I also have a complete roll of original NC-ribbon for the Lippe-Detmold war honour medal (smaller than the war merit cross) here. BR Roman

Hi gents, if you want to complete Lippe-Detmold´s IC2 equivalents, you also need to add the Lippe-Detmold war-merit medal with swords on the medal 🙂 Soldiers who didn´t award the war merit cross yet, were able to award the war merit medal. The medal should have been returned after awarding the Lippe war merit cross. Here are two examples (IC + war merit medal with swords) from my collection. By the way, if you are still looking for a NC ribbon for the war merit cross, please et me know. I still should have some original NC ribbon left...

One document-group I forgot... Ernst Weirich became the Bulgarian medal...here is the award document and the translation into German...

Hi folks, then I will add some documents for commemorative medals / crosses from my collection: Document for the "Flandern-Kreuz" (Flandern-cross) of Hauptmann Bernhard von Francois And here is the group of the conductor Johannes Klein in Berlin. Klein became the Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian commemorative medal, all refering documents survived, including the legitimation for the Hungarian one.

My latest purchase...I was looking quite a while for a suitable piece.

Interesting...although I identified it as the Kyffhäuser badge, I didn´t konw, that is was a rare one. By the way, here is another picture of Stratmann from 1935, wearing Lippe-medalbar, but not the DT badge.

Hi Don, here is the wished closeup. Indeed the photo is marked with 1936 at its back. I assume it a "Kyffhäuser-Bund" badge...nothing extra-ordinary. Do you agree to my identification? BR Roman

Hi gents, by accident this quite rare badge of the Deutscher Turnerschaft (German gymnast association) GAU IX Westfalen came to me as a part of a photo estate (mainly WW1 Verdun etc). The privious owner was Fritz Stratmann from Herne, Westfalia. The badge has a little damage, but more intersting is, that Stratmann was wearing this damaged badge already 1936. The photo-detail of him is proofing it. Stratmann is also wearing the armband "Obmann" (=referee). Since the Deutscher Turnerschaft was integrated in 1936 into the DRL, Stratmann couldn´t wear this badge any longer. BR Roman

Ok...one Lippe-Detmold piece, I have to post 🙂

Really nice two ribbonbars of a very famous Lippe-person 😁

And here is another (not Lippe-Detmold) enameled beauty, which went through my collection....the previous owner was a personal friend of King Wilhelm of Württemberg...

As I don´t want to post Lippe-Detmold all the time, I will show another enameled beauty, which I sold some time ago. This piece came directly from the family and the owner was the only one allowed to wear this Waldeck-cross at the combatant (!!!) - ribbon....

Yes, it´s the same family, but the family tree is quite complex. I would say, Ferdinand and Egmont were cousins 2nd grade.

Ok, time to post a quite unique award-document for Prince Ferdinand zur Lippe-Weißenfeld. Prince Ferdinand got the 1st class of the Lippe-Detmold houseorder in 1931, but he was killed in action already in September 1939 in Poland. I also have the pictures of his funeral and some other documents regarding Lippe-Weißenfeld.

Nice, I know, that some more award documents of this group are around in other collections, but I didn´t know, that his ribbonbar still exists.

😱 Is it Leo von Gilhaußen? I also have some documents of Leo von Gilhaußen in my collection...

Yes, Schaumburg had three different models of the merit medal.

Ah, nice merit medal....but from Schaumburg-Lippe 😛

Here is a nice litte group, unfortunately unnamed. The Lippe-Detmold houseorder 4th class Div. A is a late one, produced by C.F. Zimmermann in Pforzheim, as well as the Lippische Rose 2nd class with oakleaves for art and science, which is a late Zimmermann-piece, too. It´s likely, that the candidate received at least the Lippische Rose post 1918, as I couldn´t find a right candidate so far. Until November 1918 only 43 Lippische Rose(n) 2nd class for art and science were awarded in total, 4 women were decorated with it.

The Lippe-gendarmerie was organzied like the Prussian gendarmerie, but much smaller. There were only 22 policeofficers and one Oberst. Here is a photo from around 1900.

Ohoh, here I can add something very special from a Lippe-guy. Hauptmann Hermann Kellner (the 2nd) got his crown order 3rd class with swords on 20th September 1866. But only a picture of him with his medalbar exposes, why this award is so special... As Kellner II. was in 1866 a citizen of the principality Lippe-Detmold, he was for Prussians concidered as a foreigner and therefore he got his crown order at the ribbon for foreigners (light blue ribbon instead of the black and white Prussian combatant ribbon)! Actually I don´t know the number of awards, but the number shouldn´t be that big...

It´s time to post a very special rose from my collection. Although it´s not an award, it´s still wearable... These sables were introduced in 1859 and worn until 1867 by ca. 25 officers of the "Lippische Fuesiliere". In 1912 Prince Leopold IV. decided, that the policeofficers from Lippe (25 officers) should wear again the old traditional uniforms of the Lippische Fuesiliere. Beside my sable (restored), I know five other pieces (2 are still in the castle of Detmold, one is/was offered bei Weitze, one is exhibited in a museum in Detmold and additional piece is in collector´s hands). My sable was produced by Gustav Grah in Solingen, who produced only in 1860.