The Once & Future Kings... Dukes... Etc

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Baden's Grand Duke Friedrich I (1826-1907) some time between 1879 and 1895:

Photographed by the oddly named Sophus Williams of Berlin, Leipzigerstr. 29.

Close up of medals--

Iron Cross 1870 "Prinzchen" sized

1870/71 Medal

Russian Order of St. george

Baden XXV Years Service cRoss

Baden Campaign Medal (with no bars-- ? ribbon too small)

Prussian 1879 Golden Wedding Jubilee medal

Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1870 Friedrich Franz Cross 2

??? Medal

Grand Cross star of Baden's House Order of Fidelity

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An oddly familiar looking punk kid who needs a shave, circa 1880 or so?

Photographed by Photograph. Kunst-Verlag von E. Oertel, Berlin W.

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Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar (1818-1901):

Takne in 1888 by Hof-Photographer Louis Held, Weimar.

Note the Prinzchen sized 1870 EK2 again.

For MORE Golden Fleece photos, see the Austro-Hungarian section:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36135

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Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, dated 1892:

In 1913 he could hardly wait for his Papa-- the ancient Prince-Regent Luitpold, to cool before having himself proclaimed King Ludwig III (1845-1921) while his crazy younger cousin the nominal-King Otto had 3 more years of life.

Taken by Hof-Photographer Bernh. Dittmar, M?nchen.

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King Wilhelm II of W?rttemberg (1848-1921) dated 1898 by Hofphotograph I.M. d. K?nigin, Th. Andersen, Stuttgart--

Close up of awards:

Commander of the Military Merit Order (old style with Crown suspension)

EK2 1870 with Jubilee oakleaves

Russian Order of St. george

W?rttemberg XXV Years Long Service Cross

W?rttemberg 1889 Jubilee medal

1870/71 War Medal (note bars)

W?rttemberg Campaign Medal

Wilhelm I Centenary Medal 1897

That's not a scratch down the middle of the image-- it's the cord for his pince nez eyeglasses.

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Iron Cross 1870 "Prinzchen" sized

1870/71 Medal

Russian Order of St. george

Baden XXV Years Service cRoss

Baden Campaign Medal (with no bars-- ? ribbon too small)

Prussian 1879 Golden Wedding Jubilee medal

Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1870 Friedrich Franz Cross 2

??? Medal

The last one is Schaumburg, from better and later pictures. What a ugly medal bar he wears at this time... he later added, don't ask me how and why, a knight's cross of the Karl Friedrich merit order (whose grand master he was, of course), a Dutch order and the stuff that comes by time - Prussian 1897, oaks to the EK, three clasps to the 1870 medal - and two clasps onto his Baden Felddienst-Auszeichnung. Those could have been worn from 1866/1871 on, but there wasn't enough space on that ugley bar, as we can see.

A similar and "his" medal bar is shown in WHM Rastatt, but I have my doubts about it... some stuff is missing, and one of the clasps on the FDA ist "1848."...

PS:

you missed to mention the Schaumburg medal at W?rttemberg's Wilhelm II., too. ;)

Edited May 2, 2009 by saschaw