Post your best Imperial photos

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Hi everybody,

This new post is to share the most beautiful photos in our collection.

The first one

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Bavarian officiers received medal from King Ludwig III. See the General on the right with the Max Joseph knight cross.

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Another photo from King Ludwig III and Generals and officers. Once again one General with the Max Joseph knight cross.

Christophe

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Next photo is the Saxon General d'Elsa on Airfield.

Christophe

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General Hofacker with Adjudant pin badge

Christophe

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General Freiherr von Watter with the Commander cross of Karl Friedrich medal of Baden.

Christophe

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General Max Hoffmann with big ribbon bar.

Christophe

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A focus of Hoffmann's ribbon bar.

Christophe

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Officers with Saxe Weimar medals.

Christophe

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some focus photos

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After civil persons, the officers

[Guest Rick Research]

Wowee!!! That's a "short form" wear-- "nothing else" 1870 EK2 AND 1914 BAR

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BTW, if I found this Cross loose, I'd be the first to say "NO way! Where are the rest of his medals? Nobody would have only worn ONE like this!"

[Deruelle]

I have received this photo this day and I have posted it before seeing it really. I think I have a treasure. Thanks Rick to show me the way

Regards

Christophe

[Deruelle]

Hi,

Received today, the card of Generalleutnant Kneussl. Look at the ribbon bar, not the standart but bigger thant usual. Does anyone collect Imperial postcards ?

[Tony]

This is my favourite, simple, no awards but they have that just returned from the trenches look.

On the reverse:

My best memories from the Great War 1914/15, your Rudolf

Tony

[Ulsterman]

I just bought this one on ebay last month, but I think it is a repro.

Edited September 16, 2005 by Ulsterman

[Guest Rick Research]

Why? Does it glow electric blue under a blacklight?

[Deruelle]

I have bought the same photo last year, the same.

Christophe

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I'm lost. Does YOURS glow blue under blacklight? Is this being photographically recopied now with the exact same developing flaws?

Multiple original prints of the same original photo aren't surprising. WHY is there any question of being fake?

[Deruelle]

My exemplar is an original postcard. I never heard about fake postcards. I know some people made a copy of original photos, but it is not the same. I have more than 1200 postcards in my collection, all of them are originals.

Christophe

[Rendsburg]

Salut Deruelle,

Tes photos sont magnifiques!

Otto

[Jacques]

Von Mackensen

[Ulsterman]

I just bought this one on ebay  last month, but I think it is a repro.

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It glows and it was done on a photo quality scanner and pasted on to an older cardboard backing. I suspect the backing originally had another less exciting picture on it. I might never have known except when it arrived the center of the picture underneath was loose.

[Guest Rick Research]

Bad news, but thanks! Recently many FAKE Imperial German cabinet photos have also been appearing, the small size on heavy cardboard backing with the photographer's name, prizes won and so on, on reverse-- ALL completely fake and new-- the "sandwich" of paper used in making the fraudulent backings glows blue from the edges of the usual thick cardboard brown finished backings. I have seen these from obscure and exotic "1850s" subjects right up to the most boringly ordinary 1913 buck-private types.

I am also seeing vast numbers of phony Soviet "personnel file" photos (once available literally by the brown paper market bag full) on a variety of papers (crinkle edge, plain edge and so on) for dissimilitude, but sharing the SAME reverse "stamps" filled in with incorrect information... those are mainly Super Heroes with enormous awards and are taken from newsprint-- under a magnifier the dot patterns show which are not there in real photographs.

So, now we have to juggle black lights for every single photo, too.

[Bob Hunter]

Only recently have I begun to dabble with postcards and photos, mainly to get a better look at ribbon bars and medal bars.