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    Great Dane

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    1. I guess 'breast star' is the most suitable english word.

      Yes, anything with just a faint smell of Russia makes the prices explode :o

      Too bad...

      I'll look forward to hear his story - judging from the bars and orders it must be quite interesting :)

      Did you know the recipient beforehand or did the auction house reveal it?

      I would have loved to own lot 401 for the Danish medals on it, but from an estimate of SEK 8000 to a hammer price of SEK 42000 :speechless1: I was out of the game...

      Unfortunately (for me) that one also had a Russian medal on it...

      P.S: Now don't tell me that this bar belonged to Peyron as well, because then I'm really intrigued...

      /Mike

    2. I looked him up in the Danish state calendar. He was awarded his Danish Dannebrog knight cross on 22. May 1861 and my guess is that he received the Swedish order around the same time.

      At that time he was "Hess.-Cassel Major und Fl?geladjudant" according to the calendar and probably was awarded both orders in connection with state visits. Are you able to find out if the Kurf?rst went on a trip to Sweden and Denmark around 1861?

      And I agree with Carol I. Especially for foreigners, the Swedish orders was used to indicate the status of the award (the highest ranking was the Order of the Sword, followed by the Order of the North Star and finally the Order of the Vasa). It mattered less what their initial statutes said.

      /Mike

    3. He does claim that 'center and points are gold', but while I can understand that the centerpiece (being a separate piece) can be gold, how can the points be gold and the rest of the order not gold? Aren't the points an integrated part of the 'body'?

      The reason I started this discussion is that the Danish Order of Dannebrog was/is awarded in solid gold, but due to the fact that orders awarded to foreign recipients often wasn't returned after the death of the recipient they started to make it in silvergilt to foreigners (around 1910-20).

      I was interested to know if the same pattern could be seen with other orders...

      /Mike

    4. Item #2 is the Order of the Golden Grain

      Item #4 is the Order of the Striped Tiger

      As for their value Liverpool Medal has some (and if you divide their prices by 2 you would have a realistic guess...)

      /Mike

    5. Thanks Dave, but what I meant to say is that although the "Download PDF" option does appear on the page, when clicking on it only a blank page appears. I suspect that the "Download PDF" button is not linked directly to the PDF file and thus it might get out of proxify's settings.

      The button is directly linked to the file. If I right click the button and choose "Save target as...", I get the pdf file. Did you try that?

      Could be you are experiencing the old MS IE 6.0 + Adobe PDF bug: "Opening a PDF file within Internet Explorer 6.0 sometimes shows only a blank page"...

      If it still doesn't work, Ulsterman's offer seems like the way to go...

      /Mike

    6. These are nice and the long-term promise of the projhect is even nicer. One hopes, though, they don't wind up "lifted", burned to CD, and put up for sale on e$cam.

      Fully agree on that...

      Presumably, the limitations placed are there for a reason?

      Hmmm... I would really like to know the reason why e.g. "Neues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon" volumes 1-4 can be downloaded outside US while volumes 5-9 can't...

      /Mike

    7. Hi Mike

      :unsure: How would I do that? If someone could help me out by downloading it and mailing to my gmail account.....that would be veeeeeery helpfull :unsure:

      Use one of those 'anonymous surfing' apps out there...

      I needed an anonymizer when I bought the HD version of the Terminator 2 DVD. Each time you wanted to see it, it had to contact a license server and if you were not a US or Canadian resident (it checked your IP address) - bad luck and your money was wasted...

      /Mike

    8. I can see that the winner is one of my countrymen, so German shouldn't be unknown to him...

      And actually his bid was made even after the seller (again) added the information that the cross was not included (yes, the seller included the cross in the picture, but if you read the text it says VERY clearly that the cross is not included).

      /Mike

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