Got Waldeck?

[Wild Card]

Thank you gentlemen. Stogieman, this is a Waldeck (1850 issue) Feldzugsmedaille dated 1814 / 1815 - OEK #2880/1. The confusion may come from the 1815 date which in the picture could be construed to be 1816. Hopefully the close-up below will clarify it.

Best wishes,

Wild Card

[Solomon]

My only piece from Waldeck:

Silver merit-medal with swords in original case, with an iron cross 2.class 1914 inside (wrong side is shown)...

(Early version...from 1901 till 1908)

Greetings Solomon

Edited February 3, 2006 by Solomon

[Solomon]

and the medal alone....

[Stogieman]

Greetings Solomon! Welcome to the Forum! Outstanding Waldeck medal and case. very hard to find and some real wear/character. Very nice indeed!

[Solomon]

Greetings Solomon! Welcome to the Forum! Outstanding Waldeck medal and case. very hard to find and some real wear/character. Very nice indeed!

Thank you!

Normally i?m collecting everything from the prinicpal Lippe-Detmold (because i?m living near Detmold) and Imperial orders and medals...

Sorry for my english, but i?ve to train it again, because i haven?t used it a long time

Greetings

Solomon

[joe campbell]

soloman-

your english is fine!

i LOVE that cased combination.

if only it could talk!

welcome aboard.

joe

[eitze]

Fellow Gentlemen,

just found this fine thread about the decorations of Waldeck-Pyrmont.

I would like to add some pieces of my collection as well; perhaps it will be of interest of some of you

Let`s start with the Silver Merit Medals with Swords.

The left is a silvered piece, while the right is a silver one.

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And here you see the reverse:

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Here we have the Silver Merit Medal:

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And the reverse of the mentioned medal:

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Next one is the Golden Merit Medal with Swords.

Numbers awarded: 412

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And the reverse of the mentioned medal:

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And here comes the Golden Merit Medal.

Unfortunately the gilding isn`t that shiny

Medals awarded: 265

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And the reverse of the mentioned medal:

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Next we have a mounted group, which consists of:

- 1870-71 Combattant Medal

- Silver Merit Medal

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And final something for Homeland service in WW 1.

The "Friedrich-Bathildis-Medal" on "B?gel"-suspension (don`t know the english word).

It was bestowed from 1915-1918.

The medal is quite a big one with a diameter of 38 mm.

Numbers awarded: 375

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And the reverse of the mentioned medal:

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And last a detail of the marker`s mark (Stempelschneider).

Which was R. (=Rudolf) Kowarzik.

Greetings

eitze

[eitze]

Enough merit to become a full time member ???

Greetings

eitze

[Guest Rick Research]

That's more Waldeck than I've seen here in 10 years!

Got any award documents?

[Stogieman]

It's really nice to see so many rare medals. Nice collection!

[eitze]

Thank you Rick

Unfortunately I`ve got no documents.

It is a bad situation for the Waldeck-Collector - all war decorations during WW-I came WITHOUT award documents. They only got an entry in the Military Papers and that`s it.

So nothing to collect for that period. And all documents before 1914 are very rare AND expensive.

Greetings

eitze

Edited May 1, 2006 by eitze

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@stogieman

Bought the whole stuff within the last two years

Hope to get the "Ehrenkreuz mit Schwertern" asap this week, to complete the group which I posted in the other thread

Now it`ll be time to look for the higher classes of the Merit-Cross.

Greetings

eitze

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Back to life

Got a new two-piece bar from Waldeck, which consists of these:

- Silver Merit Medal with X

- Centennial Medal 19. August 1813-1913 for the III. Bataillon of the Infantry Regiment "von Wittich" (3. Kurhessisches) No. 83.

This was the Waldeck Home Bataillon/Regiment, which was formed 1862 from the old Waldeck "F?silierbataillon", when they signed the treaty with the Kingdom of Prussia. So Waldeck soldiers became Prussian soldiers.

Frontside bar

Edited October 7, 2006 by eitze

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The backside: