Imperial Shooting Awards

[Stogieman]

An often under-appreciated award, these shooting prizes were something many men wore with great pride. I have seen photo portraits redone when the soldat received his prize....... the portrait re-done from the opposite side so the prize could be seen! Here's a document for one to a soldier in the Alexander Garde Grenedier Regiment

[Stogieman]

The actual award:

[Stogieman]

Our Hero & his comrades in the Lager

[Stogieman]

Some document detail

[Stogieman]

A (much) later in life Birthday announcement/celebration document.

[Stogieman]

His official document folder.

[Stogieman]

This is one of the few pre-crash archives I still have and one of my earliest forays into the Imperial genre. I still love the group and don't remember ever seeing another document like this.

Anybody have a nice example of the Artillery Version???

[Stogieman]

Oh, here's Bruno himself!

[Tom Y]

No Artillery, but here's the 1905 model.

[Stogieman]

Hi Tom, is yours marked Juncker anywhere? Check under the crown!

[Guest Brian von Etzel]

Here's a Meissen shooting prize. The artwork is beautiful on this one.

[Guest Brian von Etzel]

Closeup

[Stogieman]

Hi Brian, now that's pretty! Nice, have not seen many of these. Was it for a military competition??

[Guest Brian von Etzel]

I don't know. I'm a Meissen buff and when I saw this one I jumped for it. But, what wasn't military in those days? Of course it could have been very likely a Hunt Association piece.

[Stogieman]

I've had several "Unofficial" official pieces from Saxony. A blank medal of King Albert with usually something like "Besten Schutzen Preis", a date and unit designation hand-engraved on the reverse. I always found the military ones to be interesting, even the "unofficial stuff"

[Stogieman]

Oh yeah, what about the Kaiser Preis for Artillery?? Anybody have photos of one to share? the major difference is the badge has crossed cannons as opposed to rifles!

[Chip]

Stogie,

Beautiful document and quite scarce. I once saw in a collection back East, the officer's version. The company commander was awarded a silver plaque in the shape of a shield, topped by a Kaiser crown with flags and trophy display. It was wonderfully inscribed to the individual. Exceedingly rare, as you can imagine. I think I have pictures somewhere of another one that sold on ebay a few years ago. As I recall, it brought thousands of dollars.

Chip

[Guest Rick Research]

Officers commanding Kaiser Prize units received Kaiser Prize damascus swords from His Loftiness, inscribed and dated. My sword collecting friend Ted has several of those, but we have yet to get him up to speed here, because have to scan blade sections at my house.

[Chip]

Rick,

So what then are the silver awards that I have seen?

Chip

[Jason]

Guys, do unofficial awards count in this thread?? Hope so! I got this one off Stogie a while back.

cheers Jason

[Stogieman]

Hi Jason... Well, I was hoping to see some other examples of the Kaiser Shooting Prize, especially an artillery one, but it's been great to see these other "shooting prizes" & medals as well!!

[Chip]

Rick,

Here is a picture of the marking on the back of my Junker made 1908 infantry award. Unfortunately,

most of the original silver wash finish is gone, leaving a surface that is somewhat hard to read through

Chip

Edited November 2, 2005 by Chip

[Chip]

Though not a great quality photo, here is a picture of a friend's machine gun company prize from 1913..

Chip

[Stogieman]

Hi Chip, very iunteresting. I have not seen that variation before. Nice! Is there a name under the front edge of the crown on yours?

[Chip]

Rick,

I don't think so.

Chip