HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAYYYY DEAR BILLLLLLY

[Guest Rick Research]

Happy 150th Birthday 27 January 1859- 27 January 2009 to you !

[Komtur]

Oh what a shame, that we need the english speaking cousins to remember this date

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

On half the way back to little Willies birth this medal was given to the abiders in Doorn:

[Komtur]

the back:

[Ulsterman]

whoa!

A Doorn piece. Who made that? How many?

Wow!

[seeheld]

Billy? I was thinking his name was Willy!

[Komtur]

whoa!

A Doorn piece. Who made that? How many?

Wow!

I do not know for sure, who made these medals, but most of the Doorn time items where made by Godet. There where 167 awarded in silvered bronze for the relatives and the loved ones. In bronze where given only 68 medals to the staff.

But if you now are interested in such a medal, be carefull: casted fakes of the silver medals in silver are around:

[Komtur]

fakes back

[Ulsterman]

Very cool-ids the ribbon a Hohenzollern type?

Are there any docs?

Any to foreigners?

Edited January 27, 2009 by Ulsterman

[Komtur]

Details, where you can see, wich one is minted and wich one is casted:

Sorry Rick, for hijacking your thread - I will stopp this now

Kind regards, Komtur.

Edited January 27, 2009 by Komtur

[Komtur]

Very cool-ids the ribbon a Hohenzollern type?

Are there any docs?

Any to foreigners?

Yup.

Don?t know.

Don?t know.

[Robin Lumsden]

How cool it is..................to share one's birthday with Kaiser Bill.......................and Mozart.

Calls for a haughty pose.

Edited January 27, 2009 by Robin Lumsden

[Paul C]

I wonder if there is more interest in the time of the Kaiser in the US then in Germany. Whatever the faults of the Kaisers and their system they were fauster a system that produced the most capable Army in Europe back by a large industrial base. I wonder how different the world would be if the US did not entry WWI.

[Daniel Cole]

You know there is an interesting "what if" concerning WWI. In the 1780s the US failed by one vote in congress to have the official language be German instead of English (Or so I have heard). Had the US been a German speaking nation, how would that have affected the events in the 20th century? Would language be stronger than our historical ties to Great Britian? Interesting to ponder.

[Naxos]

I wonder if there is more interest in the time of the Kaiser in the US then in Germany.

probably

[Naxos]

How cool it is..................to share one's birthday with Kaiser Bill.......................and Mozart.

Calls for a haughty pose.

Happy B day Robin - you got the least hair but the most chin

[Robin Lumsden]

...........you got the least hair but the most chin.

[VtwinVince]

"Hoch soll er leben, hoch soll er leben, dreimal hoch!". Heil dir im Siegerkranz, Majestaet.

[Mike Dwyer]

Happy birthday, Kaiser Wilhelm! Oh, and Robin too! :cheers:

[Guest Rick Research]

:Cat-Scratch: I've never seen his 75th birthday medal before--only the 1929 and 1939 pinback brooches.

Happy birthday to Robin!

[Verdun16]

"I remember Billy when he was just a snot-nosed kid"

[Verdun16]

"We never miss a party"

[Ulsterman]

Those are GREAT pictures! :cheers:

[Paul R]

Happy Birthday Billy!