westfale

After a while back here I am really surprised about the amazing pieces shown since my last post! Congratulations to all - wounderful to see these nice mini's!!

Hi Gordon,

First of all congrats for your really nice purchase! I could get a few mounth ago also such a nice cased cross, so i can give you an additional info: the 220 indicates the number of issue. Its a very early one. If there is no number on the upper arm as you find onnyour piece its a collector cross, not an official issued one.

Regards from germany

Westfale

Hello!

Due to a question in a german forum there was a cross of mine return to mind which I can not identify correctly.

It looks like an maltese cross but with wrong ribbon - but it is not the type of an maltese or st. johns cross i found on their internet-pages. So here my question: Could this be a cross of the modern templars - or if not: which cross is this?

Thanks for your help!

westfale

Thanks for showing all of this nice pieces and all the information, too! Now its time to go to nordholz to see the exhibition - looks really interesting!

Thank you for showing the Hessen bars - I like them, especially the unofficiall enamel piece shown on the last picture!!

Hello Westfale,

that miniatures are very nice. This DA's have the form like the badges before 1913.

I have never seen this kind of miniatures on pictures, are they all silver marked ?

Hi spolei,

yes, thea are all silver marked; two with "900" and the one with the other silver-stamps with "800". the last one - landwehr - must be made after 1888, which was the first year of marking silver with moon and crown! And yes, they are the miniatures of the badges worn before 1913 - thanks for like them, too!

westfale

Hey Westfale, just how scarce are the long service pendants? I have one on a bar, but that's the only mounted one I've ever seen.

HI VtwinVice,

Me too - I have seen some others in a german forum where someone asked bout them, and there were seen also a "normal" one of the landwehr. During all the time I am interested in such bars there were only a few seen in catalogues like thies etc., but mot in real - so I think they are scare!

Here my rarities:

Bavarian long-service-bars (mini's!) from left to right 3rd class, 2nd class, 1st class and landwehr

@ Solomon: Really amazing to see one of these zinc-crosses! Congrats!

HI!

Here my one with the really not often seen brunswick Landwehr-Bar - enameled and in my eyes wounderful:

Here one of mine with the not often seen mounted Landwehr-bar:

Hi!

After receiving these silver medal of the order of the oak crown and due to the amazing quality of the medal and its details - is there any chance to identify the manufacturer and the period in which this medal was made? I have attached a few pictures of the medal, it's mounting and the fixation of the ring and hope for help!

Thanks!

westfale

REALLY amazing - thanks for showing this highly decorated chain! Do you know who was the man wearing this?

westfale

Nice groups, especially these with additional minatures! Thanks for shwowing!

Really amazing, thanks for showing these impressive collection!!

HI!

After receiving this amazing picture of some oldenburg officers during or after ww1 I try to identify them and also their decorations. I cannot identify the last three awards of the man in the center and of the one right - the last one looks like one of the prussian service medals, but wearing by an officer??

So it would be a great help if someone of you could identify these decorations or one of the men of the picture!!

Thanks for your help!

westfale

The man on the picture is Johannes Marquardt, born 18.9.1900 at Kiel/Germany, according to an document with another picture of him, but the info about his position isn't verified, so there can be a misunderstood in his branch.

But why he can not be found in the KM lists? Are there no "Verwaltungsbeamte" listened?

You have the rank correct. Three stripes is a Korvettenkapitän (2 & a half stripes would be a Kapitänleutnant and 4 stripes is a Fregattenkapitän). I can't quite make out the full details of the sleeve eagle on the cuff but if it is 2 stripes under the eagle than he is a 'Verwaltungsbeamte des gehobenen Dienstes'.

This is the best detailed picture - for me 2 stripes, so he must be a "Verwaltungsbeamter des gehobenen Dienstes". In this case, is the "Marinejustizrat" correct?

Thanks again

westfale

Ohh - that's bad But thanks for your try to help!

Here's the picture of him with the uniform I'm not 100% shure about the correct rank...

regards

westfale

HI!

Does anyone of you have information about Marinejustizrat Johannes Marquardt, born 18.09.1900 at Kiel? I'm not shure about his rank and the branch, but on the picture i have he is wearing the dress of an korvettenkapitän with not really seen branch - looks like "military justice"...

It would be great to get some more information about him, so thanks very much for help

westfale

One would think that they would post a master list of award recipients somewhere on line. I spent nearly 3 hours hunting for a list but came up with nothing. I went to the English Access to Archives site and spent an hour searching there. I found a lovely article about a John Henry Hurst being called a cuckold back in the 18th century though. lol

My distant cousin, Percy Thrower also received an M.B.E. for being a gardener. Rather interesting fellow.

Amazing to read about your distant cousin and his further job on tv!!

It's astonishing how tricky it is to find such a list or some details about members of the order - theres some quite interesting literature about the decoration, but a resource for all the people who get the order... and the online search of the gazette seems to be also tricky,because I haven't found mr. hurst, although he is still there, as you show me!

About some of the old german decorations and the fellows who got them you find ood resources in the net, but here

regards

westfale

Hi at47,

thanks for your help - I can't use my computer for a while due to a broken hand (very bad and inoperable in many things!), so I can't answer directly, but today...

I have had a search in the gazette, but I did'nt find him, but now - great help, thanks again!!

regards from germany

westfale

p.s.: I've attached some of the according docs here for your interest!

Hi!

Together with the Statutes of the Order Of The British Empire I've got some letters of the "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood" to Mr. John Henry Hurst MBE.

To get more information about him I've checked the London Gazette for him, but found only John Hurst, who got the OBE in 1964, but no former entry about recieving the MBE, and I'm not shure be the same man I'm searching... BAD.

So: is there any other chance to get some more info in the net about the MBE's end of the 1950s? Does anyone of you have some other internet sources or any other help?

Thanks for help!!

regards

westfale

This is an unofficial medal in honour of 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Navy and in a memory of its first Chief - admiral Boris Kozhin

Thanks for help, taras - now I look clearer! Official or unofficial, the medal looks good, and with the case a nice eyecatcher...

@dedehansen: Typischer Fall von Schreibfehler, klar meinte ich die 64er!

@seeheld: Du hast natürlich Recht, hätte ich auch drauf kommen können - mich verwirrte nur der deutsche Text, noch dazu gleich nach meinem Post... Man möge es mir verzeihen, hab's gelöscht.

@Rujab: Ich hatte Deinen Post irrtümlich auf meine Aussage zu den vorhergehenden Mini's bezogen anstatt auf den Westphalen bei den Mini's, und war halt verwundert, daß Du dachtest, warum schreibt der das nochmal. Ist korrigiert und tut mir leid.

Grüße

Jürgen