Finnish medals?

[TerryG]

A new arrival here: Are the last 2 medals Finish? Can someone tell me more about them? What about the signature?

[Guest Rick Research]

:Cat-Scratch: God! How many of this photo are OUT there? Do a search on his name (Strauch) and all is already revealed:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20574&hl=Strauch

and

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7180&hl=strauch

Or is this the SAME photo being rented around?

I sure wish there were as many/any portraits of Paul Wiehr, Commodore of the Hamburg-America Line in the late 1920s. I've got his medal bar and ribbon bar and have never been able to find a photo of HIM!!!!

[TerryG]

Amazing and intriguing! I got this on Ebay. It is on Agfa paper and it does not glow under UV light.

[Guest Rick Research]

He must have had a suitcase full to hand out to every passenger.

Still bothers me deeply that he looks exactly like the American New York character actor Wallace Shawn.

[nesredep]

Hello!

Stunning PHOTO.

All the best

Nesredep

[Norstrom]

Hi Terry! A late answer is also an answer! The second medal is German established after ww1, Freikorps Hamburg. The city of Hamburg still have the three towers as their city arms. The third is Ehrenkreutz f?r frontk?mpfer from ww1. Then you have The Liberty medal for Finland or "Finland?s white rose" and the last one is also a rater ordinary Finnish medal but I cant?t remember its name. I send you some photos!

[Norstrom]

Finnish medals 1

[Norstrom]

Finnish medals 2

[Norstrom]

Finland?s white Rose. The swastika wasn?t a nazi sign but General Mannerheim?s personal escutcheon.