Guest Rick Research Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 In 1984, I obtained these as individual lots from Kube's Auction 44/45 in Bavaria:1897 Centenary Medal document[attachmentid=56937] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 1905 Luitpold Jubilee Medal document:[attachmentid=56938]This arrived in his mail in 1914:[attachmentid=56939] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Let's open that up and see what's inside [attachmentid=56940]...[attachmentid=56941]...[attachmentid=56942] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 NOT the award dcoument, but the Letter of Notification by separate cover! [attachmentid=56943] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Jumping forward to the final bit... even war heroes given personal nobility got the same old mass produced form paperwork as everybody else--his name wrong on the Kyffh?userbund Medal document:[attachmentid=56944]And now, after more than 24 years of my guardianship, these are going on to reunification with the bulk of Ritter von Gonnermann's papers...because that is the RIGHT thing to do.Scattered to the winds by indifference and short-sighted or indifferent greed, what has been carefully brought BACK together deserves these very very large "bits" in my little collection, but small and vital pieces of an almost-whole to the amazing main collection.Money doesn't enter into it. That's not what collecting is about, for true collectors. What the Pre-Internet tore asunder, the Internet now brings back together. And so I bid farewell to "my" treasures, and say goodbye with these final scans as they go to a better home than I could give them. And 84 years from NOW, I hope that someone yet unborn will tend the almost-whole with the same sense of stewardship that has laboriously brought the scattered pieces back together from our big wide planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gregory Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Rick,A great gesture and the definitely the right thing to do.Let us hope that the Internet will allow other split groups to be re-united over the years.My only luck so far has been to find an EK2 award document that once belonged to man whose Milit?rpass I have. I just wonder what else is missing or if the two items are all there ever was in the group.David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtwinVince Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I doff my hat to your laudible efforts, Rick. In the same spirit I've been trying for some twenty years to track down and reunite the papers and ephemera of my uncle, Major Dr. Albrecht Ochs. Many of his items, stolen in 1945, I've tracked to collections and archives in Germany, with little success so far in retrieval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Good for you Rick-history is preserved. Any chance the complete set will be posted here so that we all could enjoy them?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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