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[Josef Rietveld]

backside

haynau

[Stogieman]

Welcome Haynau! Nice early case, I have only seen a few of this style.

[Josef Rietveld]

Welcome Haynau! Nice early case, I have only seen a few of this style.

@stogieman

I'am very glad to have this one. it is the only one in my small collection.

But i can show you the cases for golden lyakat and golden imtyaz plus medals.

haynau

[Josef Rietveld]

The inside: Lyakat is real gold comes from a german Kapit?n zur See, the imityaz is silver/gilded as usual. as you know the official non-gold lyakats are gilded bronze, the non-gold imityaz are silver/gilded.

regards

haynau

[joe campbell]

haynau!

welcome!

the case you have posted in #24-26

is stunning! another example of a time when

the craft was a personal expression of

artistry and talent.

glad to have you here.

joe

[Stogieman]

Wonderful to see these pieces. This makes only the third cased Imtiaz I have ever seen. This is the first Turkish case, the other 2 were from German makers.

[Josef Rietveld]

Wonderful to see these pieces. This makes only the third cased Imtiaz I have ever seen. This is the first Turkish case, the other 2 were from German makers.

Thanks, it's always a pleasure to show the beauties to other men. I' will end my postings so far with an double interesting GO-Set of the medjidie before 1914. The box is the same type as stogieman showed earlier in the tread. from my point of view these boxes are the rarest. the red velvet ones are (no sorry have been ) easier to find on the market.

haynau

Edited November 21, 2005 by haynau

[Josef Rietveld]

The interesting thing with the badges is the diameter of the breaststar. all my few other go-stars have a diameter of exactly 75mm while the GC-Stars differ between 95 and 110 mm (very old one). This GO-Star has unexpected 85mm diameter.

haynau

Edited November 21, 2005 by haynau

[joe campbell]

absolutely STUNNING!!

thanks for such a nice look!

joe

[Guest Rick Research]

Santa came early today and brought me a THIRD unmounted "silver" Liakat Medal with Sabers bar. This is the recycled tunafish can metal Turkish issue with original Turkish ribbon mounting-- the slide on Sabers Bar is contained in a neatly sewn little section of the ribbon which once also contained the double prong French style pin fastener-- the holes for which show on the reverse:

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[Stogieman]

That's because Santa loves Evil Ricky and knows he's (deep down) not all Evil.....

[Bob Hunter]

Gorgeous pieces guys. Thanks for the peek!

[Stogieman]

Well, the Tuna can medal is one thing... The Swords/Date bar on this one is drop-dead gorgeous!

[Josef Rietveld]

Austrian-made Trifold-Ribbon for the Imityaz-Medal (Silver or gold) with Crossed Swords and 1915-Bar. Unfortunately the medal is missing, but it much easier to get then a Imityaz-Trifold

haynau

[Stogieman]

Greetings Haynau... now that is an astonishing and beautiful ribbon! Now all you have to do is find a loose medal ;>) to go with it! The back has the usual prong/eyelet mounting that we see on this style of ribbon?

[Josef Rietveld]

Greetings Haynau... he back has the usual prong/eyelet mounting that we see on this style of ribbon?

Whatever that means..

I've got to apologize but for that sentence my english isn't good enough. a lot of time went by since i have done my A-levels.

So the easiest way is shoiwing the ribbons backside.

regards haynau

PS: later on you can explain prong/eyelet ... to me

[David Gregory]

PS: later on you can explain prong/eyelet ... to me

haynau,

That trifold ribbon is very nice.

A prong is a word that usually describes part of a fork (Zinke einer Gabel), but in this case it means the end of the wire hook. Eyelet = ?se.

David

Edited December 9, 2005 by David Gregory

[Josef Rietveld]

Thanks David, i'll try to rememeber pronge and eylet as usefull vocabulary for coming discussions.

haynau

[Stogieman]

My apologies Haynau, I should have said hook & eye!

[Josef Rietveld]

My apologies Haynau, I should have said hook & eye!

Funny, this expressions i would have understood. normaly i look up difficult vocabulary in my dictionary. but at the moment i can't find the dam... book.

anyway, living is learning and my english needs a permanent brush-up.

so gents it's up to me to say thank you for lesson.

haynau

[David Gregory]

Funny, this expressions i would have understood. normaly i look up difficult vocabulary in my dictionary. but at the moment i can't find the dam... book.

anyway, living is learning and my english needs a permanent brush-up.

so gents it's up to me to say thank you for lesson.

haynau

For a quick online look-up try http://dict.leo.org/

[Guest Rick Research]

Don't feel bad-- I learned German BEFORE computers.

So, while I can find my way to the railway station, ask for food (and get what I ask for), and do "useful" things like verbally emplace machine guns...

it is as if I have been in prison on another planet for 30 years: my German is "fossilized" in the past. I do not know ANY German computer terms.

Well, I don't know many English ones either.

Hmm.

[Djedj]

Wonderful medals !

would any of you gentlmen be able to help me, I'm clueless as to identifying the uniform on that Carte de Visite :

The photographer is from Frankfurt.

Here's a close up on the orders ; I was wondering if the left one might be a Medjidie (though it looks a bit small) :

And a close up on his hat that somehow has some turkish flavour :

Any idea ?

Thanks

[Josef Rietveld]

Bonjour Djedi,

the left decoration is defintely an old medjidie 4th or 5th class of the criemea type, the decoration to the right could be an austrian milit?rverdienstkreuz old type. the cross dating from then 1860ies with war decoration (oakleaves) on an early more-violett-than-red trifold ribbon.

haynau

[peter monahan]

On a similar note of inquiry as Djedi's: I have a lovely Turkish kinjul, recently received as a gift, with a gold inscription on the blade. Does any of you gentlmen read Persian script or know where I might get it translated? I can send an image but probably not to this forum - still wrestling with the size restriction thing.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!

Lovely, lovely decorations, BTW. I drool in your collective direction!

Peter