What have you in the drawer that's rare?

[VtwinVince]

Great items, people. Now, can someone tell me what the correct ribbon actually is for the Messina Medal?

[P.F.]

One of my favourite medal bars in my collection....not "rare" i hear you say? Look closer...the Austrian Anschluss Medal is a rare varient. It is slightly bigger than the standard Annexation medals and is also magnetic!

Pierce

[P.F.]

Maybe not rare but certainly uncommon i think...i know i have not seen many of these mounted! "For War Merit"

[Great Dane]

Great items, people. Now, can someone tell me what the correct ribbon actually is for the Messina Medal?

Having investigated this medal myself just recently (see this GMIC thread: Earthquake medal), I believe the ribbon on the bar is the correct one for the Commemorative Medal.

Here is an interesting page (in Italian) about the earthquake and the medals related to it: Link

/Michael

Edited April 7, 2010 by Great Dane

[Beau Newman]

A Reuss Honor Cross. 1st Class w/Swords. No idea of the # awarded but, it must have been very low.

[Beau Newman]

The reverse:

[Wild Card]

:love:

[Hauptmann]

Come on folks... let's not let this thread go idle again. I just know there are more rare goodies out there just waiting for their moment in the spotlight.

Hoping to see more soon!

Dan

[Herr General]

Medals, documents etc to Cornelis Hendrikus Beekes, servant to the Dutch Queen Mother Emma van Waldeck-Pyrmont

Netherlands - Medal for the Silver Wedding of 1926 (only 755 awarded)

For the wedding of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands with Prince Hendrik van Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Waldeck-Pyrmont - Silver medal of Merit

Given by Furst Frederik Adolf Herman van Waldeck-Pyrmont, brother of the Queen Mother

Arolsen 2-6-1911

Luxembourg - Silver medal for Civil and Military Merit Adolp van Nassau

Januari 1914 during a visit of the Grandduchess

Belgium - Bronze medal for servants of foreign courts

Given by King leopold II during a state visit in november 1938

I think that this group is rare and unique!

[pinpon590]

In my collection, I have these 2 items :

- Anna Luise Verdienstzeichen, of Schwarzburg, only 215 awarded, between july and november 1918.

- Friedrich-Bathildis medal, of Waldeck & Pyrmont, with only 375 awards...

:cheers:

[pinpon590]

Friedrich-Bathildis medal...

[Beau Newman]

Another ex-Ludvigsen piece - Bavarian Order of St. Michael, 2nd Class. 420 awarded, mostly to non-Bavarians.

[Beau Newman]

The reverse:

[Jason]

All the way from 1815 to you...not mint....no enamel....but nice just the same!

cheers Jas

Edited April 14, 2010 by Jason

[Wild Card]

All the way from 1815 to you...not mint....no enamel....but nice just the same!

cheers Jas

The ribbon! The ribbon! :jumping:

:cheers:

[Wild Card]

Beau - that’s St. Michael at it’s best.

I have posted this piece before, a Waldeck gold merit medal as awarded from 1891 to 1899.

[Wild Card]

With only 64 awarded, I suppose that it qualifies as rare.

[Tom Y]

All the way from 1815 to you...not mint....no enamel....but nice just the same!

cheers Jas

Enamel's nice an' all that, but an almost 200 year old ribbon is superb :love:

[dante]

shown before...........

[Ulsterman]

well worth seeing again though-

[Red Eagle]

My old pictures are lost, so I show it again..

In this version, 12 times awarded.

[VtwinVince]

Ach du Lieber, is that ever a beauty from Lippe.

[Wild Card]

:love: :jumping:

[Wild Card]

:love:

I apologize for the double post; but in retrospect,

this piece deserves it.

:whistle:

Edited April 16, 2010 by Wild Card

[militaria0815]

In this version, 12 times awarded.

What a beauty! 1st I have ever seen. :love: :love:

Edited April 16, 2010 by militaria0815