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    Posted

    For your pleasure - I found one more..........

    Wirklicher Geheimer Kriegsrat Leutnant der Landwehr a.D. Fontane

    SEHO at the neck but a lot of nice stuff on the bar....photo is taken 1904 in Kassel

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    Guest Rick Research
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    That's a very strange uniform with collar and cuff edging I've never seen before. Theodor Fontane was born in Berlin 3 November 1856.

    Hidden behind his 1897 Medal is a Schwarzburg Honor Cross 2nd Class and Waldeck Nerit Cross 3rd.

    He also upgraded his Red Eagle to 3rd with Bow by 1909 and had a Reuss Honor Cross 1st Class (Elder Line) and Weimar White Falcon-Commander, as well as a Prussian Landwehr Decoration 2nd Class I don't see in there.

    This sort of group illustrates the oddity of how each of the states awarded Orders. The Ernestine Commander grades were given to MAJORS and the equivalent-- while in just about every other state, neck crosses went to full Colonels.

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    WOW !!!!!!! Thank you very much for the name of Rocholl !!!

    Here is one more photo of him - not with Oldenburg pinback but with Oldenburg on the bar!!!

    The photo reminds me of a puupet I saw once. Cannot remember if it was a muppet or a freggle. Without ensulting the Reverend, the puppet I recall (only vaguely ofcourse) looks just like him with that chin, nose and the hair backwards.

    but that's just LOL, :cheeky: please forgive me :off topic:

    Guest Rick Research
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    The Traveling Museum floated in to visit today :cheers: on a cold, dank tide as the First Winter of 2009 refuses to withdraw. Here is an 1870 Meiningen Ernestine Medal to an old former career NCO still alive in 1913:

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    Note that the thick silver date Spange has been punched right through the typical :speechless1: tin backing rather than simply folded around the ribbon. I'm surprised these were not pinned on or made to slide. BENDING them seems an awfully bad idea!

    Guest Rick Research
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    Closeup. I have no idea what the numbers awarded were for the 3 Duchies' 1870/71 Medals

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    That's an interesting mounting of the 1870/71 swords bar. It appears that it penetrates the medal bar backing and is held in place with a wedge. Am I seeing this correctly?

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    Rick,

    You have all the luck. Another visit from the Traveling Museum,

    all I get for visitors is a couple of old Ernestine medals.

    Incidentally, how do you figure that that guy was still alive in 1913?

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    ........very interesting!!! I had a 2-place 1870 medal bar once upon a time and there the 1870 Meiningen clasp was fixed exact the same way !!! :speechless1:

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    really bad picture quality this time.... this paper has seen a lot of trouble and is nearly at the end of his life....

    some kind of civil navy captain with a 5-place medal bar : red eagle 4 , crown order 4 , DA or Landwehr-DA ??? , Oldenburg house order ??? and in last place the good old SEHO

    on his buttons is the same sign as on his cap - maybe the sign of his shipping company - looks like crossed key and anchor ...........

    no place , no name , nothing on it that helps.......

    Guest Rick Research
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    I think that's Norddeutscher Lloyd, but hard to tell.

    Can't do civilians without a name, alas.

    BUT if that is a Prussian/Reichs LD1 "XX" there in the middle, maybe he can be found as a Seewehr officer....

    I don't find him in 1905, 1908, or 1914.

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    Closeup. I have no idea what the numbers awarded were for the 3 Duchies' 1870/71 Medals

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    Rick, there may be a partial answer to your question. The book, "Ehrenzeichen des Herzogtums Sachsen - Altenburg" does have award numbers listed in it for 1870/1. It states 139 awards of the silver medal with the 1870/1 sword bar.

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    Two ribbon bars with interresting combo

    Nice Bars Christophe! I would love to find just one example such as these

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